AAP positioned itself as the party of the political force in the city state of Delhi on the back of an marginalised and the urban poor, offering an alternative to anti-corruption and good governance agenda. [...] The core objective of TaRL is to and consigned to the burial ground? break the classroom free of the constraints of the age- grade curriculum to refocus its efforts on teaching at the The unfolding of reforms in Delhi’s schools offered an level of the student. [...] Specifically in the context dignity, morale and confidence levels of both teachers and of the key functions of education, pre-primary and primary students were associated with the quality of infrastructure education (nursery to Standard 5) in Delhi is within the and these had to be addressed first. [...] years, teachers, MTs and the government’s formal The intervention was conducted the following year pedagogical arm, the State Council of Education as well for students, but the subset of targeted Research and Training (SCERT), got involved in students was much smaller based on the results of expanding and editing the Pragati series, covering the end-line test conducted for students under this all. [...] The circulars we tracked the mystique and the core purpose of the organisation; sought actively to reduce the thick act of “teaching” and its link to the goal—educating children, in this instance— classroom engagement to visible, verifiable, compliance- is secondary, a happy by-product.
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