Glimpses From the Grassroots: A Synthesis Based on Case Studies of Successful Practices at Local Resource Centres in Assam, Bihar, Kerala, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh

Abstract

Universalisation of primary education involves, along with universal access to schools, an improved and constantly improving quality of the teaching learning process. Among the many interventions undertaken in DPEP for quality enhancement, suck as competency and activity based textbooks, extensive teacher training and many others, is the establishment of sub-district resource centres at the cluster and block level. These centres have played a critical role in disseminating new ideas in pedagogy and also in developing them further. The establishment and development of sub-district or local resource centres has in itself been a challenging task. The centres need to be vibrantly functional and reach out to the schools with interventions of high quality. These centres lave to evolve activities and processes that are need based and induce quality. Some states in DPEP have succeeded in evolving resource centres that have become the hub of academic activity in the area and have contributed significantly to the improvement of the quality of the classroom transactions.