Browsing by Author "Jindal, Deepika"

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    Rural research project : Studying the behavioural patterns in ECD sector under the Baldarshan project carried out by UNICEF
    (MICA, 2017) Jindal, Deepika; Sachdeva, Karan; Mozumder, Sagorika; Gupta, Vikas
    There is general recognition among parents in India that private schools using English as the primary medium of instruction (so-called "English-medium public schools") provide a better quality of education than those that uses local languages in teaching. It is reported that even some children of poor families whose parents can afford to pay a certain tuition fee attend the English-medium public school. Unlike elementary and secondary education, ECCE programs are not regulated or standardized by the government. Therefore, there is a large discrepancy in the ways in which ECCE providers deal with curricula, education quality, and teachers' qualifications. The majority of ECCE programs provided by private educational institutions are unofficial education programs without the government's supervision and instruction, and these are gradually expanding due to an increasing interest among parents in ECCE. Most of the people in India blatantly say that most teachers working at Anganwadi centers, NGOs, and private preschools are those with little training without any teaching qualifications, and thus hired for a low salary. The majority of these teachers are women due to a social norm that women are more capable of looking after infants and toddlers. Some criticize that women nursery teachers are being exploited by school owners who take advantage of the absence of laws regulating the treatment of teachers, while others say that these educational facilities provide employment opportunities for women who have no teaching qualification.