Socially Useful
Productive Work
Socially
Useful Productive Work (SUPW) is a
subject in Indian schools where students can choose from a number of vocational education activities -embroidery and
knitting, gardening, cooking, painting, carpentry and other crafts and hobbies,
and clubbed community service for senior students. Students learn to work as a
team and to work with skill and deftness. It was introduced in 1978, by the Ministry of Education to promote Gandhian values and educational ideas of Mahatma
Gandhi.
While most
private school barring a few have dispensed with the subject,[3] it remains
an ancillary, but mandatory part of course curriculum in schools affiliated to
the Council
for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE), which conducts two examinations in India: the Indian Certificate of Secondary
Education (ICSE) and the Indian School Certificate (ISC). It is taught in some Central Board of Secondary
Education (CBSE) schools, which includes Jawahar Navodaya
Vidyalaya schools. Kendriya vidyalaya has started Work education instead of
SUPW.
In addition
to developing individual skills, SUPW aims to help develop among the students
the habit to work as a community, encourage community thinking, increase
awareness of scientific advancements and develop a scientific outlook. The
training acquired in the classroom is expected to help students to solve
day-to-day problems of the community.
SUPW
programme in the schools is an important means of operationalizing the ideals
of GreenSchools . The elements of green schools (environmental, intellectual,
academic, social, cultural, spiritual, aesthetic and moral greeneries) would be
developed and manifested through the various SUPW programmes that the students
plan and carry out not only during the school sessions but also during the
vacations.Thisemphasis on providing socially useful and productive experiences
to studentsis aimed at bringing studentscloser to the real understanding of
socio-economic and cultural needs of their society. It aims to help develop
among the students the habit to work as a community and encourage community
thinking. Working together, studentslearn to solve problems and make decisions
and successfully contribute to their community. They connect local concerns
with global issues and gain awareness of others. All this will serve them now
and years later as they transition out of school and into the world of work.
With over 1200students,
one might expect our campus to be pretty filthy. It is important, however, to
take pride in the appearance of North, and to keep the campus clean.
School beautification sessions allow students to participate in the upkeep
needed to keep the school clean through a variety of projects and earn
community service hours. Many students use the opportunity to fulfil community
service.
School
beautification sessions consist of a variety of different projects, both inside
and outside the building. The school beautification sessions is a way for
students to gain insight and perspective as to how to be an active member in a
community. Through being a part of a clean-up initiative at school, students
have a greater understanding of the importance of taking part in other
initiatives.
Aims
The
aim of the curricular area is to provide children with opportunities of
participating in social and economic activities inside and outside the
classroom, enabling them to understand scientific principles and processes
involved in different types of work and in the setting in which they are found
in the physical and social environment.
Objectives
v
prepare
pupils to practise and perform manual work individually and collectively;
v
acquaint
children with the world of work and services to the community and develop in
them a sense of respect for manual workers;
v
develop
a desire to be useful members of society and contribute their best to the
common good;
v
indicate
positive attitudes of team work and socially desirable values like
self-reliance, dignity of labour, tolerance, cooperation, sympathy and
helpfulness;
v
help
in understanding the principles involved in the various forms of work; and
v
lead
children to participate increasingly in productive work as they go from one
stage of education to another and, thereby, enable them to earn while they
learn.
Programme
Ø Problems solving
approach.
In
order to ensure that the educational objectives of this programme are achieved
it is necessary to follow the problem solving approach. Children should be made
aware of the problems related to their need; they should be led to arrive at
solutions by discussing the material, tools and techniques necessary for
performing such work and services. A built-in system of evaluation should be
developed to enable them to improve their performance and to enable teachers to
give a fair assessment of their work.
Ø Teaching-learning
process: three phases.
Children
have a natural curiosity to explore their environment. They explore the world
of work by observation, enquiry and manipulation of material and tools, they
learn to work by imitation. They enjoy work. Therefore, the teaching-learning
process in Socially Useful Productive Work will have three phases:
(i)
study
of the world of work through observation and enquiry;
(ii) experimentation
with material, tools and techniques; and
(iii)
Work
practice.
The first two
are concerned with preparation for actual participation in productive work and
services and the third may lead to remuneration.
Ø Work situations:
six areas.
Thus, productive
manual work situations relating to production of goods and services will have
to be drawn from the areas of:
(i)
health
and hygiene;
(ii) food;
(iii)
shelter;
(iv) clothing;
(v) culture and
recreation; and
(vi) Community work
and social service.
These
work situations occur in the home, in the school and in the community. It has
already been mentioned that such programmes will have two components;
(a) a common
core programme;
(b) Work
practice.
CAMPUS CLEANING
Cleanliness
is the act of keeping our body, mind, dress, home, surroundings and other work
area neat and clean. We all should acquire the clean habits from our childhood
and follow onwards throughout the life. Dirt gives rise to the moral evil
however gives rise to the moral purity. A person with clean habits can destroy
his/her evil desires and dirty thoughts very easily. Cleanliness should be
taken as the first and foremost responsibility by everyone. We can be healthy only if we take everything
within us in very clean and hygienic way.
Cleanliness of the surrounding areas and environment is very necessary
for the social and intellectual health. We should bring cleanliness to our
habits and remove dirty forever from everywhere as dirt is the mother which
gives birth to various diseases. One always suffers health disorders if he/she
does not keep house and surroundings dirty, etc. Dirty things in the
surrounding areas or home gives rise to the various disease causing germs,
bacteria, virus and fungus.
It is very important topic now a day, as, a
huge population are dying daily just because of diseases caused due to the lack
of cleanliness. So it is very necessary to be aware about the importance and
necessity of the cleanliness in our life. We all together need to take a step
towards cleanliness to save thousands of lives and give them healthy life.
Cleanliness should be initiated at home, school, college, society, community,
office, organization and country level to bring a clean India revolution all
over the India. We need to clean ourselves, home, surrounding areas, society,
community, city, garden, and environment on daily basis. We all should
understand the motto, importance and necessity of cleanliness and must try to
apply it in our daily lives. Cleanliness among students in the schools are
promoted through many activities like cleaning of school campus, classrooms,
labs, poster making on cleanliness, waste segregation, essay writing, painting
on cleanliness, poems recitation, group discussion, documentary videos etc.
Cleanliness
is not a work which we should do forcefully. It is a good habit and healthy way
of our healthy life. All type of cleanliness is very necessary for our good
health whether it is personal cleanliness, surrounding cleanliness, environment
cleanliness, pet animal cleanliness or work place cleanliness (like school,
college, office, etc.). We all should be highly aware about how to maintain
cleanliness in our daily lives. It is very simple to include cleanliness in our
habit. We should never compromise with cleanliness, it is as necessary as food
and water for us. It should be practiced from the childhood which can only be
initiated by each parent as a first and foremost responsibility.
College
buildings and campus facilities are subject to daily wear and tear. Keeping our
college buildings, floors and facilities clean is essential for health and the
positive image of the instituition.Clean, nice looking facilities are a key
component to a learning environment. Failing to ensure the cleanliness of a
college can gave a detrimental impact on the health and wellbeing of all those
who use it.Cleaning as a group work is an effective method to motivate
students, encourage active work and develop key critical
thinking,communication,decision making and cooperative skills
Cleanliness
is a good habit which everyone should have to have healthy life and standard
lifestyle. Our Prime Minister, Narendra Modi has started a cleanliness campaign
called “Clean India” or “Swachh Bharat Abhiyan”. We should understand that
cleanliness is the responsibility of each and every person living on this
earth.
We
have done Campus cleaning as a part 0f SUPW which is included in our
curriculum. It was very necessary that we should have a campus cleaning because
our classes, corridors and premises were very dirty and unclean with lots of
paper bits, spider’s web, dust and waste dumped here and there. We had our
campus cleaning on 15 the October 2016, Saturday.
