Continuing Education

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State science fair strategies (Science Fair)

Friday 1 June 2007 by Doosra Dashak

Main strategies using by Doosra Dashak to enhance the influence of science fairs on a state level

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State science fair activities (Science Fair)

Thursday 31 May 2007 by Doosra Dashak

Among science fairs, there is a list of activities organised to stengthen science application in livelihood issues. This article give a small description of DD’s general science fairs’ activities

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Narayan Meghwal – exploring the world (Libraries)

Monday 28 May 2007 by Doosra Dashak

16 years old Narayan Meghwal, a resident of Sanwara village, has always been interested in studying and reading. Initially, only text books were available to him which he used to read diligently. He could never think of buying books as it was tough to get even text books due to paucity of (...)

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Can you answer those questions? (Worksheets)

Tuesday 15 May 2007 by Doosra Dashak

An innovative method of continuing education is worksheets. Joint workshops are organized of trainers of residential camps and field workers for preparation of worksheets, their distribution among trained participants, evaluation, etc. These sheets, generally speaking, consist of 4 sides of 2 (...)

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Taleti library – A challenge (Libraries)

Thursday 3 May 2007 by Doosra Dashak

Taleti is small garasia village situated in the valley of Maad Magra surrounded by hills. A small hamlet – “Kookada Fali” – is situated between two hills. A small hut is visible on the hillock. The board of Rajeev Gandhi Library attracts our attention. This village borders Gujarat and village (...)

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Hema Ram– Let knowledge become a quest (Libraries)

Wednesday 2 May 2007 by Doosra Dashak

Hema Ram is a 13 year old adolescent with innocent inquisitive eyes, beautiful face and a sweet voice. He instantly catches attention. Hema is a non-tribal resident of the garasia dominated Bahadurpura (Bajna) village and belongs to the Rewari community. Their main occupation is animal (...)

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A Day at the Science Fair, Bhawargarh, Kishanganj Block (Science Fair)

Saturday 17 March 2007 by Doosra Dashak

The morning begins at the fair as early as five o’clock! Gradually, volunteers and adolescent participants gather under the tents with brooms and spades. It is cleaning time. After this task is accomplished, by about seven-thirty, they wash up. It is very, very cold, and the water is icy. But (...)

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Fighting the education dropout (Open Middle Schools)

Thursday 8 March 2007 by Doosra Dashak

OMS is a form of continuing education for those who pass out of residential camps. Once the adolescent participants pass grade 3, 4 or 5 in the camp they have 2 options. For younger adolescents an attempt is made to motivate them to enter the formal school system for further studies. Others (...)

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State science fair: 2003, 2004, 2005 impacts (Science Fair)

Thursday 1 March 2007 by Doosra Dashak

State level Science Fairs took place -one each in 2003, 2004 and 2005. Objectives of the Fairs To develop a scientific outlook among adolescent boys and girls; To popularize Science among the people; To help people to understand how Science touches their lives in day to day activities, and To (...)

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A center to enhance knowledge (Ikhvelo)

Thursday 1 March 2007 by Doosra Dashak

Activities of Ikhvelos Open Learning Centre As a centre of open learning for adolescents Ikhvelos provide opportunities to them to take grade V or grade VIII examination through certification from National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS). Based on the needs of the adolescents these (...)

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