i.
Core Area – under which students learn to look after their own
needs and those of their neighborhood and community including the
school through compulsory activities involving manual work and social
service; and
ii.
Elective Area – under which students through repeated practice in
an activity of their choice acquire enough skills in productive work and
services. This will also be in the nature of pre-vocational experience in
some cases.
Criteria for Selection of Activities
In the pages that follow, number of illustrative activities both under the
Core and Elective Areas are given for the guidance of schools. The list,
obviously, cannot be exhaustive. The schools have the freedom to plan
their own activities according to their own needs. While planning an
activity the schools should ensure that it satisfies the following criteria:
1.
The activity must be in accordance with the basic concept of Work
Education involving purposive, meaningful and manual work;
2.
It should help the students in developing desirable work ethics and
social values;
3.
It should be suited to the level of maturity of students;
4.
It should generate enough interest among the students. One can
take a horse to water but cannot make it drink. So students have not to
be forced to undertake an activity with the result that their unwillingness
becomes a stumbling block;
5.
It should be easy to be organized by the, staff without much
outside help and should have most of the schools resources; and
6. It should have most of the following dimensions:
i. Identification of a problem;
ii. Observation of work situation;
iii. Participation in a work situation or involvement in manual work;
iv. Cultivation of good habits and attitudes;
v. Production of goods/services.
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