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Education. Describing Work Education Mahatma Gandhi Once Said ""Work Education Concept

Work education is an important part of the teaching and learning process across all levels of education. It involves organizing meaningful manual work that results in useful products for society. Work education can be categorized into work done at home, in the classroom, in society, and related to individual needs. Mahatma Gandhi emphasized the importance of work education in India. National policies also support integrating work education and "earn while you learn" programs into primary and secondary education. Work education helps develop skills, values, and a respect for manual labor while also benefiting the individual and community.

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Education. Describing Work Education Mahatma Gandhi Once Said ""Work Education Concept

Work education is an important part of the teaching and learning process across all levels of education. It involves organizing meaningful manual work that results in useful products for society. Work education can be categorized into work done at home, in the classroom, in society, and related to individual needs. Mahatma Gandhi emphasized the importance of work education in India. National policies also support integrating work education and "earn while you learn" programs into primary and secondary education. Work education helps develop skills, values, and a respect for manual labor while also benefiting the individual and community.

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INTRODUCTION:

Work education is seem to be very important, meaningful and the purposeful manual work
organised as important part of teaching learning process which results into product and goods
which is useful to the society in addition to the pleasure of doing work. It is very necessary for
all the section of the education i.e. primary, secondary, higher secondary and for the higher
education. Work education can be provided through well developed, channelled and structured
programme. It should include the knowledge , various life skills, observation, and moral values
through basic life activities. Work education can be categorised into various categories in which
we need to work upon:

Categories of work education should be:

a) Work which we do at home.


b) Work which we do in our classroom.
c) Work which we do in our society.
d) Work related to the need of an individual , such as health , clothing, cleanliness etc.

1.2Historical perspective

In India Mahatma Gandhi was the first one who insisted the practice of doing work with
education. Describing work education Mahatma Gandhi once said “”work education concept
which is suggested by education commission (1964-66) is similar to the concept of
philosophy of basic education. For the last fourty years or so there is ancumulative demand to
include work education with regular syllabus at every stages of education. This will give
respect and respect and dignity to all type of manual work, it will also remove distinction
between manual worker and white collar worker, promote independency in fulfilling daily
needs and the requirement of the humanity, increasing efficiency through the improvement of
proper services, work and values, and will help in the economic development of the country
through social work and community work by the students.

1.3 Concept of Work Education


National curricular framework for school education as developed by the NCERT (2000) has
given a new term work education instead of earlier name work experience. The national
policy on education (1986) has concluded work experience as meaningful work which results
into goods and services that are beneficial to the people. Work education includes of
activities consisting of services, food, clothing, social services and recreation according to
the mental level and skill of the children on the basis of availability of the local resources.
The policy on education suggested the active participation of primary and secondary students
in production and service oriented projects along with an “earn while you learn” for needy
students on a optional basis. It provides an equal importance to community services by
creating social awareness for the welfare of society. The most important attribute of work
education is its manual character which means that children will work with their hands while
they will learn. By this they develop personal, social qualities, skills, values related to work.
Work education must require a self-importance of place in the school syllabus as a means of
attainingself-sufficiency and as a training for future life. School is a place which acts as a
mediator between child and the community. School not only conserve our culture but also
nurturing and progressing at the same time. School is a place from where we can bring
change in the society. An honest execution of work education in schools can bring the
student closer to the community/society and make them a responsible citizen.

Psychologically also it will balance the practical and intellectual part of education. It will
help to develop the skills, values and dignity for the work and on the other hand child can
apply his mind and intelligence for some constructive/productive work which is good for the
child and for the society too.

As RabindranathTagore has once said the mind of a child is like a empty slate whatever we
write in it, the word or the knowledge will become permanently accepted by the child so if in
this technology oriented society we will feed the brain of the child with technology he/she
will grasp the knowledge easily and help in developing society which is technologically
fulfil. Work education help in preserving or nurturing the creativity, helpfulness for the other
making them useful part of the democratic country.

The concept of work education was basically comes from the early Vedic timeswhen the
child lived in ashrams and do every kind of work which is needed for the survival and
developing mind. Education is an effective weapon and powerful communication medium to
increase the productivity of goods to the individual.

The Indian working group on vocationalization of education (1996) has also emphasis on the
necessity of work education. According to them prevocational programme should be planned
at primary level to increase the employability and to decrease the dropout from the school.

According to Kothari commission the component of work education has been implemented
in different schools of the country from 1975 onwards. However its execution varied in
emphasis from place to place and from schools to schools.

1.4Limitations
The researcher used the standardized questionnaire based on 5- point likert scale.

The investigation did not develop any psychological tests for investigative purpose.

The study is only limited to the CBSE schools wherein the subject is taught to them.

Reference and research paper on the subject are limited.

The researcher has no control over the response of the students on the subject.

The research is restricted to only 30 questions in the questionnaire .

` The researcher did not take into consideration the attitude of the teachers.

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