Through our education system maybe our education system, maybe our different things,
maybe the impact of consumerism, you can tell. Now the children are being disconnected
from nature. I think he was mentioning that thing the children are.
They are disconnected from the nature, which I think even if I was looking at our education
policy, there is another one where this time has come, that the curricular integration of
essential subjects’ skills and capacities, that is that is one thing is new education policy, and
which talks about introduction of contemporary subject, such as artificial intelligence design
thinking, holistic health organic living environmental education. Global Citizenship education,
etc. As we really have stages. Sometimes we talk that key which is the relevant stage,
whether it be a kid with an ERC whether needs to be taught about the environment or not.
Yes, I believe this, we have to design in such a way that from the kid stays to the eye or
stays. It needs to come. Again, I agree to that. Yeah, it is not only education within the
curriculum. See, I have remembered in my young days. Also, we were doing. I don’t know
whether it is happening now, or not. Your integration camps are being done, where we are
going to forest and looking at the flora and fauna.
Even now, now, even in this education policy they are talking about 10 days internship, but
they are particular please mention that it is great, and others in some other things but not
environment. But all these things, I think, when we’re talking about achieving the, particularly
sustainable the SDG and linking it to the education for children. I think number one is we
need to review the policies that are existing, and whether there is any. There is need of
changes in policy or not. Again, we have policies, but what is what are the implications
levels, what is happening or the community level what is happening, or the village level what
is happening, are he lendable, and we all are talking even if random panda was telling that
regarding the digital platform. It has put all the children into a very unsafe condition now that
is also part of the whole environment that that needs to be very seriously thought of. And
when we are, we are now, I was I was watching while looking at one news. If children are
going to the hilltop to just listen to education to go to go get the education. So, these the
technology is very good. I appreciate, whatever technology coming up and all these things.
So, it needs to be child friendly also what type of technology, children need to use, so that
they can learn properly. So, that is that is that is a major concern I think we need to another
one thing I think Panaji was talking I am totally agree with him. Regarding the food
consumption is TJ also talking about the consumption and all these things. So far, we are
going to, we are teaching children every corner, minute now. You go and find it in the rural
areas. Also, the fast food, the junk food. So, this is this is coming up very, very concerned
with very. It has raised a warning label. And if we are not going to stop all these things,
educate the children regarding this also. And now they have talked about organic living I
don’t know how it is going to be reflected in the curriculum and all these things if it is
reflected properly, it is very good, because there is certain policy, we need to look how it is
these are going to be implemented through the curriculum as well. Because when we’re
talking, we need to talk about that. Organic living, maybe even if we need to talk because
these are equal closer in the schools, because if we are talking about what recommendation
we should give eco club, but we need to look into that whether these ecosystems how they
are functioning and what education the children are going there. So, it is both way it is, it has
to come within the curriculum, from, say even it from LKG to because even if the child learns
from the mother’s womb, there is there is a saying that the child because past when a when
a child born, he or she talks that kaymar, Mother. So, so from the beginning. A child has to
be taught the child has to be educated, maybe because the community has a great role, the
family has a growth role, and the school has also a great role, the role policy as a great role,
we have to see. At what stage. At what level. We need to educate children, but are what
things, so that needs to be very seriously, we need to think like I could conjure up something
I also talked about. And so even knowing their own, what I was telling that they are
disconnected, even if Obama was raising that point of where my children are disconnected.
Yes, children are disconnected due to many reasons, many impacts. So now we need to
look into those things also, how the children will be again connected to their soil, it can
connect to there are a game coordinator to the reason I think that that education will give
that link. And I will come back to that for next year in the next round of discussion or
definitely come back to how children need to be naturally inclined towards nature, because
we have created a plastic generation of children synthetic children, and.
And we can say adulterated products, all that we are pumping into the market, and children
are the most vulnerable section of the society at one level, and they are the future
generation as well. So future generation cannot continue to remain as vulnerable. So about
next round of discussion we will have three minutes intervention from each one of the
panellists. The first one is around six seven minutes. So, three-minute intervention from
Professor Prafulla. Where do you see that we are doing wrong, what can be done? If that is
the question is what can what should be done. If there is a specific recommendation from
you. Just let me just put my main point says look when I said this was my experiment, it’s an
intellectual transition by androgen panditji and that’s not the Board of Education, it doesn’t
give content doesn‘t give exercise nothing interlinked with that. So that’s how to get cheap
ones. What I like to pinpoint here. When we say child education and environment, we see
environment. Magical subject environment.
When you bring the children in between children it’s both have a role to play the role here in
between. and how it will happen. See, hidden setting is not very important at this point of
time, policies, and now things are there. What is needed is how to take those policies to the
last mile in realizing the objectives.
Out of my experimentation for the last decade and I see that a fundamental shift that needed
to be done. One is some mode of education or you know passive mode of education were
fundamental skill building education. Because environment education is also livelihood life
and job. We have the connectivity in this to the demand the curiosity of the children, or the
children. Taking environment at a cost something will not emerge, that is one of the same
one. Wouldn’t integrating integration. See when you say this connection to connection
requires a transition. And this transition is not the other day, integrity, because it requires
finance, it requires strategy. It requires you know modalities kind of all the people talk about
sweeping kind of things, because I work in education or I work on SDG whatever things are
people talking about what the community for two years in this backward community what I
realize it transition is neat and tidy. We don’t need to understand the environmental
education understanding of the Niti Ayog or the Government of India. If you come down to
the state government level. If you come down with the district level. And if you come to the
status school. Major scenes and the object are completely missing. So, what is needed is,
we should have a clear. And this transitional time has to be there in the place, and it should
be given time. It cannot be overnight achieved something called the things I’ve already
mentioned the fundamental program policies and visions have already saved a program on
climate national program, where the content area methodological areas should be clearly
defined, which has not happened on personal data in 2020 is silent of these things. If you
just see the measurement of the SDG things and children’s consciousness that because I’ve
seen. Under the green campus program has done, our identity basics to green issues to the
school children to develop their understanding and bring the quality education the existing
stream of expeditions. People are coming with the innovative solution that is internationally
acknowledged that they can come up with cottage industries, natural resources available.
The business idea I had never thought that they’ll come up with the way they can bring the
sanitizers. So, I think that is where environmental education because what happened today,
we, the Ministry of Education, talks about when we go structural basis and do elementary
and secondary and are higher and then go on to the Technical Education and Professional
Education jobs. I want disconnected in peace. Unless you have this disconnection to
connect with the masses, don’t have been disconnected already traditionally longer. Then
we can have these two goals can take together if you see the roadmap.
The predictions are reality and realities have to be communicated to students understand
simple example water. Water is not only today. It’s also sort of conflict, sort of completed
every level and conflict in one area. The basic education ecosystem in totality how climate
change. The challenge is to really create a transitional stage, then only we can see we have
been living in no time because we’re already all our grandchildren’s initial set of things is not
going to stop today. Typically, 4. billion in terms of resources every year you’re using to
create a. trillion-dollar economy the world by 2050 were expecting 162 billion tons of
resources, just imagine what will happen. So, the human induced climate change.
Change will change, we get common action. We need campaigns, winning advocacy, we
need everything together, children, children as an active citizen should be in our country.
Because the commitment to see the national government.
The commitment in terms of Finance. It’s completely different deficit. We made almost 3
billion rupees today, and we have been deficit around 2.9 billion annually, till 2013.
This is not statistical things consumption,
environmental education today is not one of the you know a subset of the curriculum, today
is a fundamental thing, because the economy. After some years were ending for jobs.
He jobs for so many students and that is what is my point. Thank you.
Speaker: Professor Ranjan Panda
You have been working on water, you will have been as we’re talking about active citizens of
young people who can be change agents in environmental citizenship. So, in keeping all that
discussion what has been happening now, and going ahead. What do you see needs to be
done, or you are someone who has been very proactive in the sector? Where do you see we
have the gaps and what how should we go about it, creating a thriving SDG climate change
and environmental and water communication, if I will add more specificity into that.
I think some points are very valid points have been made by Iranian by probability.
There are. I would say two fundamentally, you know approach this.
We, I was part of one of the regional committees, which was built to develop the
