1. Community-based Education at Rishi Valley
Full Economic Citizenship
Roundtable on Innovations in Education
RISHI VALLEY INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES (RIVER)
KRISHNAMURTI FOUNDATION INDIA

2. Why is the system failing?
Centralised curriculum
Frustrated teacher
Uninteresting classrooms
Community losing faith
Why is the system failing?

3. Child in the driver’s seat

4. Teachers formulating curriculum - Meaningful support structures
Community involvement - A school free of fear

5. Teachers formulating curriculum - Meaningful support structures
Community involvement - A school free of fear

6. Teachers formulating curriculum - Meaningful support structures
Community involvement - A school free of fear

7. Teachers formulating curriculum - Meaningful support structures
Community involvement - A school free of fear

8. Teachers formulating curriculum - Meaningful support structures
Community involvement - A school free of fear

9. Learning Ladder Sense of achievement Self paced learning
Self driven learner
Learning Ladder

10. Space and time management
Most rural schools –multigrade by default
RIVER model – multigrade / multilevel by design
dynamic grouping
Grade, gender and ability – not the criteria
Space and time management

11. Community Ownership Community curriculum Mothers’ committees
Mothers’ stories
Traditional folk arts
Mothers’ committees
Monitoring children’s progress
Organising mid-day meals
· Local Ownership. Has local ownership of the project been obtained? Or is there a plan to transfer ownership?
Community Ownership

12. Enriching village commons
Barren wastelands converted into green public spaces
Used variously for herbal gardens, water harvesting, solar energy
Provides for fuel and fodder needs
Enriching village commons

13. Cost effective model Design Teaching - learning materials
single-room, single-teacher
Teaching - learning materials
“School-in-a-box”
Cost of building and establishment – Rs.1,50,000
Cost of running – Rs.15,000
per month
Cost effective model

14. 16 to thousands of schools
HOW?

15. The first challenge Problem Backward region
Mainstreaming girl child labourers
Strategy
Creating resource group
Setting up 200 learning centres
Achievement
96.8% of the girls achieved minimum levels of learning
The first challenge

16. Challenges in the formal sector
Problem
Cynicism of teachers
Apathy of bureaucracy
Resistance from the textbook lobby
Strategies
Designer’s workshops
Setting up 36 model schools
On-the-job support
Achievement
Scaling up in phases – 36 to 280 to 10’000 schools
Challenges in the formal sector

17. Reaching out to remote socio-linguistic minorities

18. Regions in India practicing the RIVER model

19. Reaching other developing countries
RIVER- Ethiopia Collaboration
Several potential partnerships-Peru, Pakistan,China
Reaching other developing countries

20. Replicating strategy moving in partnerships
“Trans-creation” of materials
Setting up model schools
Scaling up in phases
Putting in place decentralised support structures
Transparent evaluation mechanisms
Creating a critical mass of stakeholders
Replicating strategy moving in partnerships

21. Capacity building Range of training programmes Hands-on training
On-the-job support and monitoring
Comprehensive training materials – teachers’ manuals, trainers’ modules, training films
Capacity building

22. Global Development Network award “Most innovate development project ”
GDN criteria
Creativity/innovativeness
Social impact
Cost performance
Replicability
Capacity building
Global Development Network award “Most innovate development project ”

23. VISION Building regional resource groups
Consolidate research base through action research
Linkage with Universities-Metz, Regensburg,
Harvard & London
Creating a network of networks
VISION

24. Innovation Recap Putting the child in the driver’s seat
Involving teacher and community in creating local-specific curriculum
Designing dynamic space and time management for schools
Making school as a community resource centre
· Creativity / Innovativeness: How is your project (or what aspect of your project, including its methodology) is new in your field?
Innovation
Recap

25. Joyful learning leading to negligible dropout rates
Significant decrease in child labour in the region
Enrichment of village commons
Improvement in quality of life of the community
· Social Impact of the Idea on Development Issues: What development idea is this project addressing? Is it a fundamental aspect of poverty alleviation and development in the short and long term? How does the institution assess this impact?
Social impact
Recap

26. Cost performance single room, single teacher Recap Sustainable design
Teaching learning material
comprehensive package for the whole school
Rs.1,50,000 to set up a school
Rs.15,000 a month to run the school
· Cost Performance: How many people are/will be affected by this project? To what degree?
Cost performance
Recap

27. Capacity building Recap Experiential training
On-the-job support and monitoring
Comprehensive training materials
· Capacity Building: Is one of the fundamental goals of the project to help people help themselves? Has the targeted population demonstrated an increase in skill development or an increased willingness to learn new skills?
Capacity building
Recap

28. Replicability Recap From partnership to ownership
“Trans-creation” of materials
Setting up model schools
Scaling up in phases
Creating a critical mass
· Replicability: How easily can the project be replicated in other countries, regions, cultures?
Replicability
Recap

29. Vision Recap Joyful childhood - creative teachers - strong networks
Preserve the self-sustaining, self-replicating, self-evolving nature of the RIVER model
· Vision, Goal setting, Problem solving.
Vision
Recap

30. Thank you for your attention