“Education is not an affair of ‘telling’ and ‘being told’, but an active constructive process… its enactment in practice requires that the school environment be equipped with agencies for doing.” (John Dewey 1916, in his book, Democracy and Education.)
Kansai – Nerolac Paints Limited (KNPL), Bawal through their CSR initiatives provided this opportunity to the Govt. High School of Suthana village,Bawal so that children can learn by doing. SACHETAN organization assumed this responsibility of agency for doing and organised learning by doing camp – ‘Do It Yourself’ for two days (28-29 March 2016) with the support of Kansai – Nerolac Paints. The focus was on designing different activity based sessions and for the purpose several thoughts were put in to create simple ‘doing devices and tools’.
The chosen activities were from the segment of traditional art and craft like; paper mache, paper rolling, and jewellery making from seeds and other natural items, fabric painting through stencils, and block printing. The activities supported the larger goal of environment protection, value education, social and cultural awareness, and further more nurturing a sense of closeness to the nature and its resources. The basic idea was to let the children about getting involved in an activity and, through the process of doing the activity, learn how that happened? how do they feel about the activity?, and what the activity makes them think about..?.
Thanks to Mr. Ishwar Singh ji, Principal and his fellow teachers at Govt high School, Suthana who were presented all the time during the sessions and involved themselves also into the learning process. Though, it was a CSR activity through an NGO partner, however, KNPL representatives were equally attended and participated in the camp. The camp was visited and appreciated by Mr. Yash Garg, District Collector ; District and Block education officer; Mr. Rajesh Patel, Mr. Kobayashi, Mr. Amit Yadav, Mr. Rajeev Saxena and other Officers from KNPL and the local community members. Thanks to Ramji, Sheenu Chauhan, Palash Parihar, Komal and Bharti Gaur who formed a good resource team of SACHETAN and added the pinch of unique creativity to their respective learning sessions. Sharing some of the photographs of the camp. Enjoy.
