Disabled-friendly learning is one of the features of the State government’s ‘Save Public Education Campaign’, Education Minister C. Ravindranath has said.
He was here on Thursday to open the 360 home libraries being set up as part of ‘Koottukoodan Pusthakachangathi’, a book donation drive launched by the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), Kozhikode.
The Minister said that education should be student-centric, and not teacher-centric.
In classrooms
The SSA was planning to set up libraries in classrooms itself to help students. The teachers should also be equipped with good reference books to clear the doubts of students. There should be good central libraries too in all schools, he said.
Mr. Ravindranath said that the government would put an end to the marginalisation in education. Differently-abled students would be brought to the mainstream of society.
Talent labs
Talent labs had been proposed to set up in schools to nurture the talent in each student.
Reading habit should be inculcated in students, who should be taught what to read, the Minister added.
Actor and filmmaker Joy Mathew said that it was unfair to categorise children as abled and disabled based on their performance in exams. By that yardstick, he said, he should be called disabled as he too had failed in primary classes. Education should be to nurture the real talent among children, he added.
A. Pradeep Kumar, MLA, writer U.K. Kumaran, and Mayor Thottathil Raveendran were present.
