BGVS’s Role in Basic education

Modalities of Implementation

BGVS also considers it important that basic education should stress as much on the affective domain as it usually does on the cognitive. Therefore addressing questions of values, feelings and emotions are as important as teaching various subjects. In particular, the BEP lays stress on values such as cooperation, peace, democracy and secularism, within an over all critical pedagogy.

Beginning with the Joy of Learning festivals that BGVS conducted all over the country in 1995, a pilot program called Jeevanshala was launched in BGVS in selected blocks in Bihar (Nawada), Haryana (Samalkha) and in AP (Khamam District). The objective was to experiment with various methodologies, set up teacher training procedures, and develop an internal resource group and to work out methods of community involvement. After the completion of this program, that was fairly successful in most of these areas, BGVS since 2004 has been implementing its vision and objectives of Basic Education in the following ways:

1. Improvements in the Government system
2. Gyan Vigyan Vidyalayas
3. Out of School programs