Divaswapna (Gijubhai)
I have heard lots of people talking hard about “Divaswapna” being a great manual for
inspiring all would be teachers. And that’s very true. It says a lot about the
correct pedagogy for primary students.
Learning is not memorizing things, its understanding every
theory relating it with daily life experiences. A primary student can learn and
relate only those things which they see around themselves, i.e., concrete
concepts and not abstract ones.
Gijubhai too tries to implement this idea of “Education through Games and Stories”
which has worked well, with his students for sure and also with the readers of
the book.
I myself read this book in the mid of my B.Ed. programme when
I already know half of this idea of “Learning
without Burden” I found the story and all these ideas very much known and
hence less interesting. The writer talks about each subject’s pedagogy in a
very similar way i.e. through games like antakshari, Drama and stories.
Writer’s struggle for making space in Students’ heart is
worth reading and admiring. Book talks a lot about what an ideal Teacher- student
relation should look like! If I was at his place I would have quit trying the
first day itself. But he didn’t quit till the end which made his experiment
about pedagogy a successful one giving inspiration to the whole lot of growing “wanna
be” teachers.
The book even stresses on moral values like cleanliness, discipline, respect for elders etc.
which a citizen of India must have. Now-a-days teachers normally go in a hurry
for completing just the syllabus and forget about inculcating these values into
their learners’ heart and mind.
There is definitely a change
needed in the education system which lies very much in the upcoming Teachers’
generation.
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