School of Angels
Avui us recomano un article publicat a l’Outlook Business sobre Shanti Bhavan, l’escola on vaig treballar el meu primer cop a l’Índia.Últimament el projecte de Shanti Bhavan, que tot i alguns problemes econòmics segueix endavant, ha aparegut a diferents mitjans degut a algunes bones notícies que ja he comentat en el blog (1,2). Però l’article de l’Outlook Business és especialment interessant perquè descriu força bé els trets que fan que aquest projecte educatiu es diferenciï dels enfocaments habituals.Us deixo un petit fragment:[...] It’s a residential school alright. But nothing about Shanti Bhavan gives away the fact that it caters to disadvantaged dalit children from below-poverty-line families. Here’s where over 200 students, 180 of them dalits, live, get educated and dream of a future unthinkable to their folks back home. Shanti Bhavan’s aim is to give world-class education to its students so that these children of sewer cleaners, bonded labourers and masons can become society leaders as lawyers, environmentalists and astronauts.Students are only taken in at the age of four and they spend the best part of the next 13 years at Shanti Bhavan. They are charged no fees. Its first batch (begun in 1997) will pass out next year. Shanti Bhavan was in the news this year and the last because all its tenth-graders achieved first division in the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) exams. [...]Llegir-lo complet.
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