Education will not bear the brunt of further lockdowns
In Kashmir there has been a huge impact on the learning processes as all educational institutions remain closed from a long period of time
Sheikh Arshid
Education is a comprehensive resource that is widely revolutionising the society morally, socially and economically. It is used for improvement of social concepts, human values, connects the people from all walks of life and has a vital role in social reformation.
It teaches us about the human nature and its role in inculcating all social norms to form a solid foundation of society without any discrimination in caste, creed, colour and religion. Education enables the individual of the society in knowing their rights and duties towards society and families.
Education has become mandatory to every individual in all learning abilities, it expands vision and outlook to see the world. It develops the capabilities to fight against the injustice , violence, corruption and many other bad elements of the society. Without education a man is faltered and faded up of being a real human and social being. It helps us to learn all aspects of society and in present scenario a man is being treated devalued and immortalized without education. It shows the connectivity and interdependence among the different individuals of the society.
In Kashmir there has been a huge impact on the learning processes as all educational institutions remain closed from a long period of time due to incessant unrest and lockdowns. It has not only brought up a huge loss in our education system but also procure bad consequences on economic and society. It refers to general loss of knowledge, skills, lost of momentum in academic progress, most commonly created huge and extended gaps or discontinuities in a student’s education. With the postponement of major national and UT level exams , academic schedules of millions of students have been thrown out of gear and their teaching-class room touch remain completely disrupted.
Amid lockdowns and incessant unrest, more brunt is then created by long winter break, which occurs when students take extended breaks in their education due to the inclement weather and all the private and government schools typically take long breaks that can last up to two or three months and in educational learning process it creates more pain and interventions.
The Interruption in formal education, students lose concentration on studies and not able to remain in touch with the studies at home. Thus student experience a significant learning loss or gaps in their education. In these cases, students are not able to repeat previous chapters, complete additional coursework, or accelerate their learning progress in other ways. Also due to unpredictable breaks they are surrounded by fear, trauma and lack of stimulating activity.
Another common loss in education is continuous gag on the internet which keep students away from all kinds of Google information and online classes. Mostly it effects the research of M.phil and PhD scholars as they are not able to search current and fresh knowledge. They remain blank about current affairs of whole world and they are not able to book text books online. They remain at a disadvantageous stage as they are not able to divert and use these resources for additional learning opportunities.
The school is often considered to be a potential source of learning process. Students remain in touch with the teachers and complete their common course-credit requirements that allow students to satisfy their progress and graduation levels. In schools they pursue some other strategies including projects, practical works and other multifaceted assignments that serve as culminating academic and intellect experience among students that also remain out of touch during lockdown and unrest.
From last 4 or 5 years it has been observed lower-quality teaching, slower academic progress, and much more loss in learning processes in relation to students and meek in student’s expectations to be at a specific stage in their education has created huge threat to the education system. The schools may have to adopt a variety of strategies intended to mitigate the learning loss that occurs over lock downs and unrests. The students are always unprepared upon upcoming exams as content was taught by any one and they need to give them maximum flexibility during the exam time and offer to concrete solid strategies so that at least students may be protected from complete deviation from education.
