This Presentation was made by me on 16'Th April 2014 at the 9'Th National Quality Conclave at Le Meridian, New Delhi.

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CAPACITY BUILDING THROUGH COLLABORATIVE EFFORT
IN FORMAL EDUCATION
PROF.(DR.) B. L. HANDOO
EDUCATIONAL INNOVATOR
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Content
• Broad Definition of Capacity Building
• Meaning of Collaboration
• Formal Education
• Collaborative effort and Capacity Building
• Factors to Remember
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What Is Meant By Capacity Building?
• “Capacity Building” is used to describe
Intentional actions and initiatives that
support us to become the best we can be –
as individuals and as communities
• The word "capacity" speaks of our potential
– as people, and as communities. So, when
we talk about capacity, we are talking about
that which we have the potential to become.
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5. What Is Meant By Capacity Building?
• Capacity building is about change,
about becoming more.
• A comprehensive, integrated approach
to capacity building nurtures excellence,
expansion and positive change in all
areas of human experience.
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6. What Is Meant By Capacity Building?
• By building social, environmental, economic,
physical, psychological, spiritual, and cultural
capacity, we are able to address the potential of
the whole person within the whole community.
• Sometimes the changes in capacity we hope to
achieve will include individual knowledge,
behaviours, skills, and techniques.
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7. What Is Meant By Capacity Building?
• We also want to give a boost to policies and
infrastructure, funding, staffing and other helpful
resources.
• We also want to pay attention to cultural
capacities – those collective assumptions,
attitudes, and worldviews that influence our life in
families, groups, organizations, and in institutions
such as government, health and the educational
system.
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8. What Is Meant By Capacity Building?
• We value these capacities as concrete and
practical, as instrumental and measurable.
But we also need to be mindful of less
concrete but equally critical human capacities
such as individual self-awareness, attitudes,
purpose, worldviews, and ethics, and how
each of these capacities influences our
choices and behaviours.
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10. collaborative
• Collaborative - accomplished by
collaboration; "collaborative effort“
cooperative- done with or working
with others for a common purpose or
benefit; "a cooperative effort“
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11. collaboration
• Collaboration is working with each other to
do a task and to achieve shared goals. It is
a recursive process where two or more
people or organizations work together to
realize shared goals,] that is creative in
nature[—by sharing knowledge, learning
and building consensus.
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12. Collaboration
• Most collaboration requires leadership,
although the form of leadership can be
social within decentralized and
egalitarian group.
• In particular, teams that work collaboratively
can obtain greater resources, recognition
and reward when facing competition for
finite resources.
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13. Collaboration
• Structured methods of collaboration
encourage introspection of behavior
and communication.
• These methods specifically aim to
increase the success of teams as they
engage in collaborative problem
solving.
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14. EDUCATION
• Etymologically, the word "education" is derived
from the Latin ēducātiō ("A breeding, a bringing
up, a rearing") from ēdūcō ("I educate, I train")
which is related to the homonym ēdūcō ("I lead
forth, I take out; I raise up, I erect") from ē-
("from, out of") and dūcō ("I lead, I conduct").[3]
• Education can take place in formal or informal
educational settings.
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15. Formal education
• Systems of schooling involve
institutionalized teaching and learning in
relation to a curriculum, which itself is
established according to a predetermined
purpose of the schools in the system.
School systems are sometimes also
based on religions, giving them different
curricula.
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17. Formal education
• In recent years, co-teaching has become one of the
most widely used models of collaboration, found in
classrooms across all grade levels and content areas.
• Once only regarded as collaboration between
special education and general education teachers, it is
now more generally defined as “…two professionals
delivering substantive instruction to a diverse group of
students in a single physical space."
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18. Formal education
• As classrooms have become increasingly
diverse, so too have the challenges for
educators. Due to the diverse needs of students
with designated special needs, and students of
varied academic levels, teachers have been led
to develop new approaches that provide
additional support for their students.
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19. Formal education
• In practice, this is an inclusive model
where students are not removed from
the classroom to receive separate
instruction, but rather they remain and
receive collaborative instruction by both
their general teacher and special
education teachers.
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20. • Societal changes that have taken place
over the past few decades allows new
ways of conceptualizing collaboration,
and to understand the evolution and
expansion of these types of
relationships.
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21. Formal education
• Economic changes that have taken
place domestically and internationally
have resulted in the transformation from
an industry-dependent economy to an
information-centered economy that is
dependent on new technologies and
expansion of industries that provide
services.
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22. Formal education
• From an educational standpoint, such
transformations were projected through federal
reports, such as: A Nation at Risk in 1983 and
What Matters Most: Teaching for America’s
Future in 1996. In these reports, economic
success could be assured if students developed
the capacity to learn how to “manage teams…
and…work together successfully in teams”.
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23. Formal education
• The continuing development of Web 2.0 technologies,
such as wikis, blogs, multiplayer games, online
communities, and Twitter, among others, has changed
the manner in which students communicate and
collaborate. Teachers are increasingly
using collaborative software to establish virtual
learning environments (VLEs). This allows them to
share learning materials and feedback with both
students and in some cases, parents.
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24. THANK YOU
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