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Positive Schooling: Concept, Characteristics, Situation Analysis and Implications

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Positive Schooling and Child Development

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The ultimate objective of education is imparting knowledge to students, enhancing their coping skills, helping them in building their character, and, finally, producing skilled and responsible citizens for nation building. Therefore, schools play an important role in achieving the objective of education and in shaping the career of a child. This chapter outlines the basic concepts of positive schooling and its characteristics. Further, the chapter focuses on the ground reality concerning the schooling systems in India in terms of types of schools, leadership in schools, role of teachers, infrastructure of schools, teaching methods, periodic training for teachers, disciplining methods, corporal punishment and its impact, student motivation, students’ enrolment and attendance, examination and methods of evaluation of student performance, revision of school curricula from time to time, effective parents-teachers meeting and feedback mechanism, involving larger community in the school management committee and taking their suggestions for better functioning. The chapter also discusses students’ safety, their psychological challenges, mental health support services, life skills or adolescent reproductive health education for school students, assessment of students’ aptitude and interests for career guidance, importance of extra-curricular activities, students’ protection policy in school, and student feedback mechanism. Finally, the chapter focuses on revisiting the selection procedure of the teachers and making school teaching more attractive by providing better salary and other facilities in addition to describing the implication of positive schooling for overall welfare and well-being of students and prescribing some steps based on evidence.

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Deb, S. (2018). Positive Schooling: Concept, Characteristics, Situation Analysis and Implications. In: Deb, S. (eds) Positive Schooling and Child Development. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0077-6_1

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