Popultion education

Popultion education

1. POPULATION EDUCATION K.SATHISH KUMAR …………. ALAGAPPA UNIVERSITY

2. INTRODUCTION FTR Population education is defined as an educational programme which provides for a study of the population situation in the family, community, Nation, and the world, with the purpose of developing in the students, rational and responsible attitudes and behaviour towards that situation.

3. POPULATION EDUCATION- MEANING: Gopal Rao says, “Population education may be defined as an educational programme which provides for a study of the population phenomenon so as to enable the students to take rational decisions towards problems arising out of rapid population growth.”

4. The National Seminar on Population Education ( Bombay, 1969) emphasized, the importance of knowledge about the quality and quantity of population and the need to control it for happy human existence. The population education is essentially related to human resources development. It is not only concerned with population awareness but also with developing values and attitudes, which will take care of these aspects of population. Students should be made to understand the cause-effect relationship to enable them to make rational decisions with regard to population matters.

5. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN POPULATION EDUCATION AND FAMILY PLANNING EDUCATION: POPULATION EDUCATION FAMILY PLANNING It helps the present day students to take over the responsibility of the family. It is meant only for married couples. Takes longer time to reach the goal but could create permanent solution for the population problem. It helps to reach the goal quickly and immediately. It attempts to develop the required knowledge and attitude by imparting necessary education. Through advertisement and propaganda, it tries to regulate the reproductive behaviour of the married couples. It tries to develop self-control through changes of heart. It operates on medical lines like conducting Vasectomy and Tubectomy operations. It target s major percentage of the population It target s particular section of the population

6. Need for population education:

7. Need for population education: Controlling population. Ensuring better quality of life. Optimum uses of natural resource's. Better health. Solving food problems. Well around system of education. Increasing National wealth. Value orientation.

8. Objectives of population education: National seminar on population education, held in Bombay in August 1969, recommended the following objectives of making population education functionally efficient. To enable the students to understand that family size is controllable. Population limitation can be facilitate the development of higher quality of life in the Nation. Small family size can contribute materially to the quality of living for the individual family.

9. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES: UNESCO Expert Prof. T.S. Metha has suggested the specific objectives of population education on the following lines: To familiarize the students with the important concepts and practices of demography. To make students understand the causes for population explosion. To make students understand how population explosion affects the environment by polluting it. To impress upon the students that small family norm is correct and desirable. To strengthen the relationship between family size and standard of living. To develop awareness about the population policies and programmes.

10. SMALL FAMILY NORM Small Family Norm . The size of the  family  is a matter of great importance welfare and health of the individual, the  family  and. the community.

11. ADVANTAGES OF SMALL FAMILY NORMS: All parents are content with one or two children. Parents developed the right attitude of accepting equality well a son or daughter. Parents allow a healthy interval of minimum three years between the first and the second child birth. Girls have equal educational opportunities as boys. The economic status of the family improves considerably and their consumption power also increases.

12. CURRICULUM AND STRATEGIES TO IMPLEMENT POPULATION EDUCATION:

13. Teaching methodology for population education: Integrated approach. Disciplinary approach Unit approach Instructional period approach.

14. INTEGRATED APPROACH: In this approach, instead of teaching population education as a separate subject, it is integrated with all other essential school students like Science Social studies Mathematics Language study etc.,

15. DISCIPLINARY APPROACH In this approach, population included in the curriculum as a separate subject of the study or discipline Though population education is taught as separate subject it could be treated as a non-examination subject, In the second strategy, teaching and evaluation are carried out as being done in other subjects.

16. Unit approach In this approach, in each school subject, one or two units may be assigned for population education in which suitable topics or concepts appropriate to the grade level may be organized for the students a learning.

17. Instructional period approach Allotting a fixed number of periods per week for teaching population education as in the cases of other subjects. Imparting education during the absentee periods of teachers.

18. PROBLEMS IN IMPARTING POPULATION Population education is a new field of education, people confuse it with family planning and sex education and oppose it for inclusion for instruction. Text books and reference materials are not readily available at present. Lack of in-service education and pre-service education of teachers in this important area poses yet another problem.

19. POPULATION EDUCATION AND THE TEACHER: Teacher should utilize the previous experience of the learner to motivate them to learn the new concept presented, further; Population concepts are to be integrated appropriately where ever possible with the subject being taught in the class. Proper home assignments are to be given for the population concepts taught in the class, Suitable co-curricular activities are to be undertaken periodically. Teacher should participate in seminars, workshops, inservice programmes etc., conducted in population education and show interest in preparing various kinds of instructional materials in population education.

20. CONCLUSION: The rapid population growth affects nearly all aspects of rural life, and that they themselves are the ones who can affect the population growth rate. However, no education materials alone can be expected to "solve" the "population problem." To be effective, population education must be allied with a full range of health and social services, including family planning. Finally, it must be remembered that population education is just one link in the overall chain of integrated rural development..