Essay name: Informal Education of Sanskrit in Kerala
Author:
Jayasree M.
Affiliation: Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit / Department of Sanskrit Sahitya
This essay studies the informal education of Sanskrit in Kerala with special reference to Ayurveda. It provides a historical overview of Sanskrit education in India, highlighting its roots in the Vedas and the growth of the Gurukula system. It further discusses educational institutions in Kerala such as Shalas, Mathas, Kalaris and more formalized schools during colonial rule.
Chapter 2 - Informal Education: Definitions and Agencies
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didactic and face to face mentioning and tutoring to large group lecturing
and the use of wide variety of education technology. 12 It suggests that
peer group participation and daily experience provide informal education
situation. Certainly they provide the basis of informal learning, but the
extent to which this is education is debatable. Certainly it is sometimes.
claimed that the mass media provide another form of ideological control
and so there have been a number of papers advocating that critical
reflection is an important part of the learning process. 13
The most fundamental postulate of the philosophy of non formal
/informal education is the pivoted recognition that the word education has
a wide connotation and as such embraces all influences, contacts impacts
14 and interactions. We learn the most from our friends and from other
people who share our interest. The mass-media of communication
disseminates substantial educative information. The whole men emerge
from lifelong learning experience mostly in settings outside the formal
institutions. Non-formal/informal education system could produce more
knowledge and better mentally equipped citizens to play their perceived.
role more efficiently.
Formal system with in-built resistance and love for the status-quo
cannot meet the needs demands and aspirations of resurgent societies.
Only the philosophy of the non-formal and the informal can serve as the
