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The agitators stated that the standard seven textbook, introduced from the last academic year, has ignored the importance of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in the history and instead has glorified Muslim rulers like Babur, Humayun, Akbar, Jahangir, Shahajahan and Aurangzeb.
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Feb 03, 09
Yahoo! Nachrichten Deutschland, 2009.01.03.
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Indien will einen Computer für nur zehn Dollar auf den Markt bringen. Der Billig-Laptop soll Millionen von jungen Menschen in dem Land helfen, die für einen Hochschul-Besuch notwendigen Kenntnisse zu erwerben, wie Bildungsminister R.P. Agrawal bei der Vorstellung des Projekts in der südindischen Stadt Tirupati sagte.
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Various political and religious groups have been protesting against the Class 7 textbook introduced by the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M)-led government this academic year. They allege that the book injects atheism and communist ideology into young minds.
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The text under attack is part of the second chapter of the textbook titled 'The Land of Humanness'. The chapter seeks to introduce the issues of caste and religion in the classroom. Doing away with the traditional method employed by most textbooks, here the child is exposed to some news clippings and stories related to cases of caste discrimination The students are asked to examine a table from an admission register of the year 1924 of a Kerala school. It wants the child to look at the column of caste and understand a social context in which children from a particular caste form a majority in the school. With the help of the teacher, the children are expected to analyse the table and find out if there are students who do not study because of caste discrimination.
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All religious/community leaders - Christian, Hindu, Muslim - and Congress party are together in this fight against the Communist government in Kerala, alleging that the Communists are trying to instill Atheism and Communism in students.
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The controversy over class VII social science textbook in Kerala is snowballing into a major row with students wings of the opposition UDF and ruling LDF engaging in violent clashes and the Congress vowing to continue the protest till the book was withdrawn.
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Thiruvananthapuram: The controversy over a Social Studies textbook prescribed for Grade VII students snow balled on Sunday, with the Syro-Malabar church using its Sunday assembly to read out a pastoral letter across churches in Kerala against the proposed textbook.
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Jun 25, 08
Religious Intelligence, 2008.06.23
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New Delhi: Catholic Christians in Kerala state are up in arms against the communist government for introducing a new social studies textbook for Class VII, which allegedly promotes atheism and denigrates Christian institutions.
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The contents of the Class 7 social studies textbook are being objected to by opposition parties and religious groups. They allege the book contains very little about leaders of India’s freedom movement and instead tries to indoctrinate children with the communist ideology.
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For the past one week, pro-UDF student activists have been out on the streets, attacking the police, burning textbooks and damaging public property. Arrested leaders of the Kerala Student Union have launched a fast in jail.
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Joining issue with the government, the Kerala Catholic Bishops' Council (KCBC) has sought the withdrawal of social science textbooks for Grade 7, alleging that the book instills anti-religious feelings and atheistic attitudes in the minds of children.
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But in India, even simple lessons and straight talk on sex are non-existent. On April 23 ministers of Maharashtra's state government lashed out at the Ministry of Education and Minister Purke, characterizing his announcement to reinstate sex ed as rouge and brash.
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Experts believe the most important step towards reducing stress in schoolchildren is to alter the teaching methodology. “Teaching should be more activity-oriented than text-oriented. It makes learning more fun and less stressful,” Gupta said.
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Edukacja w stanie Kerala przechodzi na open source. Takie zarządzenie ogłosił rząd kilka dni temu. Oznacza to całkowite zrezygnowanie z oprogramowania korporacji Microsoft na rzecz aplikacji na licencji GPL i podobnych.
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The NCERT textbooks are read only in private and central government schools that follow the CBSE system. This means that a vast majority of students still study books printed by state governments, many of which are riddled with errors and ideological biases.
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Computers today are a ubiquitous feature of most classrooms. But is installing a computer and allowing students to surf the Internet during school hours all that technology in education involves?
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Jean D'Souza, a working mother, doesn't know what to tell her son when he comes back from school and asks why she goes out to work instead of staying at home and cooking for the family. His school textbook tells him, "My father goes out to work and earns money. My mother stays at home and cooks for us."
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