2. We And They :History of Time
• Do our history of time is similar to the history of time of
our future generation ?
• In what respect our time was different from these
youths ?
• Do we know that they know much better of our
weaknesses than our strengths?
• Why this happened? Where did we lost our beloved
youths ?
• What did we wish to make them like us ?
• Why did not we allow them to be what they wanted to be
?
3. Issues
Pass out syndrome –in single curriculum – no scope for
multiple curriculum based on students innate
capabilities- but “fit in system”
Rote memory –examination and grading.
No dream for multiple talents
If failed, no hope for future
If passed, unemployment
No youth policy to channelize the talents
4. Result
• Utter neglect of youth resource
• Abuse,, neglect ,poor result, uncertain future
• Youths join in crime, terrorism and unsocial
act
• Threatened democracy and loss of social
capital
5. How our students spend their time
Consider if youth engage their most of the time in
1. Cinema - 12 hours in a week
2. Cricket – most of the time 6 hours in a day
3. Mobile - 3 hours in a day
4. Market - 1 – 2 hours in a day
5. Group entertainment – 25 hours in a week
6. Students from this back ground comes to school
and we teach them
With all these in mind how do they engage their
mind with learning ?
6. Why this happened
• Indian market is dependent on children and adolescents
and youth
• Most of the fashion is adopted by the youths
• Market economy of India in collaboration with other
country has decided to engage the youths in cinema,
cricket, mobile , computers, internet and such other techs.
• global market want to capture the purchase capacity of
youths.
• Why there is match fixing in cricket ?? What the youths
gain out of it?
• Why all these are so attractive to youths?
• And why not the school subjects ?
7. Kill the morals and create the market
• Values and morals have been replaced by market price
• Children and youths have been trapped by technology
• Parents are also proud of their children’s use of
technology
• Past values has been forgotten
• We are unable to understand our future generation
• western world want our youths to become slave than
master –
• Instrumentalism and information makes a man machine
• educational values build humanity
• We are rapidly loosing our social and moral values
• It is not only youths , we have also partially lost our values
8. Pedagogy to andragogy
• Child Learner/Pedagogy
• Concrete
• Unknown to known
• Dependent
• Inexperienced
• Less social role and
identity
• Subject centred learning
• Externally motivated
• Adult learner/Andragogy
• Abstract
• Known to exploring
• Independent
• Experienced
• Identity, personality, self
name
• Problem centred learning
• Internally motivated
9. Changes or transformation?
• Body
• Childhood to puberty
and maturity
• Changes in boys
• Changes in girls
• Parents care / neglect /
• Mind
• Fear ,ignorance
• crisis,shame,secretness
• hate,anxities, cultural
moors, mother’s hate and
control, fathers
restriction, socialisation in
case of girls, sacred and
profane- purity of body
10. Adolescent Youths
• Their physical development affect their
personality , individuality, identity , naming
• Intellectual development takes place
• hero worship,
• Adventure, friendship,courage,freedoom from
parents and teachers and taking self
decision,
• Ability to draw conclusion at 14
• Dreaming big to be some one – film
hero/cricket hero as ideal model
11. Bonded Youths
• Parents
• Disbelieve
• Control
• Dominant
• Impose self decision
• Fix goal of life for them
• Ignorance of what they
think and want to be
• Teachers
• Believe/disbelieve
• Control
• Authoritative
• Disallow discussion/
questioning
• Don’t explore the inner
potentialities,
• Ignore what youths know
and impose subjects to
domesticate
12. Culture And Youth
• Traditional
• Fixed social rule for boys
and girls
• Obedient
• Sincere
• Silent
• Very good
• Tolerant
• Use traditional devices
• Respect the old
• Modern
• Group for a cause
• Games, music, play
• Cinema/TV/Video
• Computers
• Mobile/tablets
• using hi tech. and reject
the recent tech.
• get always new- discard
the old
13. 21st Century Youths
• How they are identified ?
Beauty- dress- fashion or good book reader, painter, musician,
player ,actor, social worker
• Who is their role model? In what major activities
they engage every day?
• Film hero /cricket hero/musician/DADA
• What are their common activities ?
• Games, feasting , travelling ,adventure
• What do they like more and dislike more ?
• Likes: Freedom, independence,
• Dislikes: Interference, dominance,
• Reject parents persuasion and ignores teachers advise.
14. Multicultural World
• Heterogeneity of race, language and religion,
• Experiencing diversities, change in thinking
and high order of logical concepts,
• Higher psychological functions, problem
solving and critical thinking
15. Do we know ??
• we represent a time which is mismatched without future
generation
• we wish our children to be like us which is wrong
• We fail to guide them based on their own talent
• We are dogmatic, not updated with the change that comes around
us and back ward
• May be we are good subject experts- but we lack the
adolescentric psychology
• We also are trapped to a system of rotten educational system
where we lost our country’s knowledge
• we also did not explore the best of the world in education
• We divided math and science as marker of progress and literature
and social science as subordinate to it. This came from the
US/Eurocentric market economy conspiracy.
16. Two mega strategies
to fight this
• Understand that we will not teach unless we
understand to whom we are to teach and why
teaching is necessary to the youths
• The subjects we teach must be useful to the youths
- heart at first and then mind ( possibly hand ?)
• Pedagogy of Love and not authority –
• Authority over subjects
• Ability to deliver creatively to create curiosity and
thinking in the youths
• Learning from the youths and self actualise
• Mutual learning – no teaching without learning and
no learning with out teaching
17. Love and Freedom with
responsibilities
• Youths love freedom, recognition, self respect,
group work,
• Want space to show their talent
• Given chance they will show their heroism
• They respect us if we recognise them
• Love the youths and get responsible youths
with love and knowledge
18. Can the youths get a responsive
classroom?
• Why not ?
• We will rethink on young generation
• we will give them dream
• We will work together with the youths
in/out side classroom to shape them
according to their own talent
• Our past knowledge will help us to do this
19. Our subjects
• Our subjects are entry point to youth
development
• we must find such topics that will help us in
safeguarding their interest, talent, curiosity,
character building( not strictly), self image,
recognition, praise, and responsible,
• Parents may not help the youths in shaping
their life , except funding , but we teachers
gie them a dream to grow up.
20. Our subjects for youths
• Language and literature can transform the heart of the
youths to become imaginary, emotionally
healthy,creative,beautiful mind and aesthetic sense
• Mathematics can give our youths sense of logic, truth
and reason and problem solving
• Science can give them experimentation, application ,
exploration of one’s own environment to see meaning
fully and connected ness
• Social science can give them social harmony, tolerance,
cultural democracy,living in diversity, and social
integration.
• History can inspire youths to become a part of history
making ( not history reading)
21. Fill up the list
• Ecology
• Art and craft
• Yoga
• Sports music,drama…………….
• ……………………
• ……………………….
• .
22. Endless dream
• We open our heart for the youths
• we become the authority of knowledge than
authority on students
• We explore our heritage and culture to
rebuild our youths moral and ethics.
• We expand our heart to capture the hearts
of the youths through respecting them as our
own progeny of knowledge.
