Satyabrata Barik's Page

Those who have read John Holt can appreciate How Children Fail and How Children Learn in school. But now under the dins of globalisation and the rehtoric of Millenium Development Indian schools, mostly those run by governments, seem as though meant to fail its children, both in spite of and because of the implementation of RTE (Right to Education). How ? The problems range from shortage of teachers per grade to the relevance of the contents, from proper training of the teachers to the language…See More

At the Eagleton resort on the outskirt of Bangalore, where I attended a conference of SRC directors to discuss the progress of literacy campaign in India.

PRIMER DEVELOPMENT DEBATEBy Satyabrata BarikSeriousness of the debate on development of primers for adult education diminishes if literacy is considered merely to teach 3R’s. So far as the transfer of three skills – those of reading, writing and basic arithmetic is concerned everyone tends to think that it is almost same as those used for children or even less so because adults may not opt for higher qualifications in the formal stream. Apart from this a different approach to teaching is…See More