TEENAGERS THINKING : TOWARDS EDUCATIONPRIYANKA SHRIVASTAV(SLP 9)

MUZAMMIL ANSARI(SLP 9)RADHIKA KANNOJIYA(SLP 9)

WHY?We wanted to know why people think Government Schools do not provide good quality of education and facilities to the students as compared to Private Low income schools in Mumbai.

RTE……. (RIGHT TO EDUCATION)

•Free and compulsory education for children between 6 to 14 age group.•Education is a fundamental right, admission based on caste, reservation, no donation or fees and no interview of child or parents for admission.•Every child has a right to full time elementary education of satisfactory and equitable quality in a formal schools which satisfies certain norms and standards.

WHAT?We chose Survey as a tool to collect the data in following communities of Mumbai (Kurla, Worli and Prabhadevi).Students from 7th to 10th std were surveyed.

We chose localities on the basis of:•Student’s economical background.•Our community.•Areas where Private Low income and government Schools exist.•30 houses from each communities were surveyed.

Research and reading reports

HYPOTHESISOur hypothesis was that there would not be much differences between Private Low income schools and Government schools on the basis of quality education, effective teaching, infrastructure and facilities for students.

Result of our survey proved that our Hypothesis was correct.

Survey Questions

•Name:•Standard :•School government/low income private;•How is your school in terms of Facilities, Infrastructure, good teaching and teachers?•How does education makes sense in your life?•Would you prefer changing school? Why?

OUR WORK

•Identifying communities,•Creating survey questions,•Preparing survey sheets,•Reading RTE, ASER and Praja white paper reports•Visiting communities for surveys, •Data collection,•Data entry,• Data analyzing,• Data publishing,

Government Low income private schools

WORLI 80% 80%

KURLA 90% 80%

CENTURY 66% 53%

Table1: Good teaching and Teachers

As per the data government schools are better than low income private schools teachers in 3 different communities.

GOVERNMENT Low income Private schools

WORLI 50% 40%

KURLA 70% 80%

CENTURY 46% 46%

Table2: Good facilities and infrastructure

According to the data in some of the areas government schools have Good Facilities & Infrastructure and in some Low income private schools.

Government Low income private schools

WORLI 30% 30%

KURLA 10% 30%

CENTURY 26% 40%

Table3: No Clean Toilets

As per the data government schools have more cleaner toilets than Low income private Schools.

Reasons of the students

Schooling WORLI KURLA CENTURY

No purpose Low income privateGovernment

60%

30%

20%

10%

33%

20%Studying for parents

Low income privateGovernment

10%

30%

30%

30%

0%

0%Connected to life

Low income private Government

20%

40%

60%

30%

80%

66%

Table 4 : Students’ reasons behind education

• As per the above data most of the students don’t know the reason behind their education.•Some students said that they are studying for their parents.•Most of the students are studying to achieve their goals in future.

AREAS SCHOOLING YES NOWORLI Low income

private Government

30%

40%

70%

60%KURLA Low income

private Government

40%

30%

60%

70%CENTURY Low income

privateGovernment

26%

33%

74%

67%

Table 5: Students’ Preference of change of schooling

The above table shows that the students of Low income private schools and government School are happy with their schooling and in some areas the number of students prefer to changeIs more and in some areas is less.

ACHIEVEMENTS AND CHALLENGES

•We learnt to do research.•We learnt effective ways of survey.•We also learnt to prepare a report for publishing.

•Our biggest challenge was to work in a team.•We were also not able to manage our timing.•It was difficult to travel to unknown places for survey.

THANK YOU

SANGITA KAPADIAPURVI VORA

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