Alternative Education : Challenges and Prospective

Alternative educations are essential not only for eradication of illiteracy and universalisation of elementary education, but also for making life-long education a way of life and for bringing about the Cultural Revolution for the learning society. These alternatives are inter-related and inter-dependent and both should, therefore, go hand in hand for achieving the laudable objectives, Since a lot of changes have taken place in the national scenario of Adult and Non-Formal Education, it is really essential to deal with these new changes and make it up-to-date. This book is about the evolution of alternative education in India. It also traces the genesis of the concept of adult education in. Europe and how it spread in other parts of the world. The book deals in great depth, the history of the growth of adult education in this sub-continent. While new and innovative developments have taken place in most developed countries, the concept of adult education in India has evolved around basic literacy. This book makes a comprehensive review of the new input into alternative schooling in the light of emerging demands of non-schooled children of quality education as outcome rather than of opportunity. The book reveals historical background of alternative schooling in India concept and relationship of development and non-formal education, comparison of formal, non-formal and informal education.