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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training. The objectives of informal education are the intergenerational
transfer of values and skills and the teaching of cultural norms. The
instructional process is in the nature of a symbiosis between the learner
and the environment and the learner is seldom aware of being a student
engaged in the integration of new values and skills. 17
Finally viewed within the broader framework of human resource
development the following features are important.
1. Formal informal and non-formal education are structurally unique, the
components of each may be distinguished in terms of content medium
and methodology. While they share the critical structural elements of
space, time, material and people, they are uniquely differentiated by their
techniques for organizing these elements.
2. Formal transmission is more effective when the education function is
cognitive abstract and evaluative as best represented in the technology of
schooling. informal transmission is more effective when the educational
function is affective related to values and beliefs as best illustrated in the
socio cultural techniques of family, pear group, and community. Non-
formal transmission is more effective when the educational function is
psychomotor, concrete and skill oriented as best exemplified in the
technologies of the workplace.
