INCLUSION
OF WORK RELATED SUBJECT AREAS.
CONCEPT
OF WORK ORIENTED EDUCATION
Work oriented Education means
integration of meaningful manual work, as a part of the learning process and
resulting into goods or services useful to the community, besides the pleasure
of self- fulfilment. It should be an essential component at all stages of
education and must be provided through a well-structured and graded programme. The competencies to be developed in this
field should include knowledge, understanding skills and values through
need-based life activities.
Major
categories of work, which need to be specifically stressed include:
a)
Work pertaining to the needs of individual, such as health, hygiene, clothing,
cleanliness, etc;
b)
Work at home to be performed as a member of the family;
c)
Work in the classroom, school and in the out of school activities integrated
with school life;
d) Work as a learning experience through other
subjects such as physical education, art education, social studies, science and
others;
e)
Work in the community focused on selfless service;
f)
Work relating to vocational development, production, social usefulness and
exploration of the opportunities and care pathways.
Work Oriented Education provides the basis for
building up proper attitudes towards work developing favourable work values and
habits, imparting necessary knowledge related to work, and developing
appropriate work skills, which can help the children to become productive and
self-reliant in meeting their day-to-day needs and those of their families and
communities. Work OrientedEducation can
further enable the children to discover their real interests and aptitudes
which would be helpful to them in selecting suitable courses of study and
occupations later on. Work occupies a
prominent position in the life and well- being of an individual and a country, so
Work Oriented Education have animportant place in the school curriculum .
In
view of the unique importance of work education for the all round development
of the child and well-being of the country, considerable importance has been
given to it in almost all important schemes, such as Gandhiji’s Scheme of Basic
Education, Kothari Commission’s Report, NCERT’s Ten-Year School Curriculum,
Report of the Ishwar Bhai Patel Committee, the National Policy of Education,
1986 and more recently the National Curriculum Framework 2000. It has been introduced and implemented under
different names, such as Craft Education (1937), Work Experience (1967),
Socially Useful Productive Work (1977), at different times .
OBJECTIVES
OF WORK ORIENTED EDUCATION
Work
Education helps the pupil to
1.
Identify his needs and those of his family and community in respect of food,
health and hygiene, clothing, shelter, recreation and social service.
2.
Acquaint himself with productive activities in the community.
3.
Know the sources of raw materials and understand the use of tools and equipment
in the production of goods and services.
4.
Understand scientific facts and principles involved in various forms of work.
5.
Understand the process of planning and organizing productive work. .
6.
Develop skills for the selection, procurement, arrangement and use of tools and
materials for different forms of productive work.
7.
Develop skills for the application of problem solving methods in productive
work and social service situations.
8.
Develop respect for manual work and regard for manual workers.
9.
Inculcate socially desirable values such as self-reliance, helpfulness,
cooperativeness, team-work, perseverance, tolerance, etc.
10.
Develop proper work habits and values such as regularity, punctuality,
discipline, honesty, efficiency, love of excellence and dedication to duty.
11.
Develop self-esteem and confidence through achievements in productive work and
services.
12.
Develop a deeper concern for the environment and a sense of belonging,
responsibility and commitment to the society.
13
Develop awareness of socio-economic problems of society.
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