Monday, December 31, 2012

IECS: NEW YEAR RESOLUTION

Dear Friends,

HAPPY NEW YEAR!
May the New Year bring you all joys, peace of mind, prosperity, happiness, success, fame, wisdom, love and the Blessings of the Lord!

My New Year Resolution is to re-dedicate my life to help all concerned in imparting values through education using both the conventional and the high-tech approaches. There has to be a Life-connect and activities that bind our future generation to our roots and yet let them soar in the realms of their latent potentialities in an age of innovation & creativity.

What gives me the confidence and expertise that I can do this is:
I spent the first 26 years of my career at Vishwa Bharati, with girl students only; 12 years in the Women’s Degree College, 2 years in the 10+2 Girls School and then 11 years as the Founder Principal of a Residential Women’s Teacher Education College. Vishwa Bharati was committed to welfare of Women and the basic tenets of philosophy were Shiviaism, Sufism and Mysticism.

I had the privilege of being Project Director of NCERT National Conferences on Development of ‘Value Development Models of Teaching’ at Indore and at Srinagar. We developed two models: ‘The Value Dilemma Model’ and ‘The Jurisprudence Value Development Model.’

As Educational Consultant and Dean Academics for over 5 years at Darshan Education Foundation, I was responsible for Training Teachers in the implementation of a Spiritual Curriculum developed by the Organization. The Curriculum was based on the science of spirituality and included Life Skills, Peace, Meditation, Non-violence, Vegetarianism, Universal Brotherhood, Self-Introspection and Love & Respect for all Creation.

I have worked on my Research on Cognitive Development for several years at RCE Ajmer and in the process delved deep into Stages of Cognitive Development, Stages of Moral Development, Adolescent Psychology, Behavior Modification, Counseling techniques and Pedagogy required for the 21’st Century.

You will all appreciate that the need of the hour demands that we help our teachers, educators and administrators in creating a congenial climate for Value Education and learn how to do it. The CBSE has also recently come up with a Manual for Value Education, Value Cards etc and this can be of great help.

I count on guidance and support of the members of the IECS Academic Advisory Board:        Dr. Arjun Badlani, Dr. Avtar Singh,Dr. B.Singh, Dr. Dheeraj Mehrotra, Dr. Rakesh Chander, Dr. Ranjan Roy, Dr. S. Arora, Dr. Sangeeta Bhatia, Mr. Anil Sharma, Mr. IR Pathak, Mr. P.S.Kalra, Mr. Sanju Tiwari, Mr. Suraj Prakash, Mr. Vikram Dutt, Mr. Yog Raj, Mrs. Arti Khosla, Mrs. Mukta Misra, Mrs. Neera Mathur, Mrs. Paramjit Kaur, Mrs. Sadhna Pandey, Mrs. KR Maalati and Mrs. Rupam Sah.

I will also be seeking the cooperation of Educators, Administrators and Trainers like:              Dr. Nisha Peshin, Dr. Usha Tickoo, Mr. Anil Kumar Sharma, Mr. Anirudh Gupta, Mr. Arun Gupta, Mr. Ashish Agarwal, Mr. Bharat Bhushan Jha, Mr. Kirpal Singh, Mr. Mohd Yussouf Wani, Mr. Mushtaq Mehindru, Mr. Ram Singh, Mr. RD Sharma, Mr. SL Jain, Mr. Vekat Aalagiri, Mr. Yogendra Singh, Mrs. Arti Chopra, Mrs. Harinder Sraw, Mrs. Kusum Warikoo, Mrs. Kavita Lohia Bajpayai, Mrs. Manjeet Kaur Makkar, Mrs. Monica Saraswat, Mrs. Namreeta Anandani, Mrs. Rupa Chakravarti, Mrs. Shyma Hawa, Mrs. Sona Babar and Mrs. Urmil Vajpai.

I am hopeful that with the efforts of all of us we will be able to give our education that cutting edge that helps us to bring a social change that is deliberate & planned and enables to reconstruct a society that is modern & progressive, liberal & free and yet safe, secure and just.