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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. Although different in structure and priority of educational function, the
formal, informal and non-formal modes are not found in isolation or serving
only a single educational function. If transmission is recognized as a life
process, then formal, informal and non-formal may get preference or
priority according to changing individual and social developmental
strategies of the
of the
life cycle,
life cycle,
informal childhood, family; Formal-
adolescence, school; Non-formal - adulthood, work. Thus informal, formal
and non-formal education interfere in such a way that each can support
the other. 18
Since Sanskrit is a language which has a history of thousands of
years of the informal agencies existed in Indian society for knowledge
acquisition should be examined briefly. The traditional agencies were not
equipped with the modern facilities and worked in an atmosphere quite
different from ours. An attempt is made here to trace out this problem
briefly.
The Traditional Agencies of Informal Education
Society gives rise to various agencies of formal and informal
education during its course of development. In India, as we have seen
earlier in the previous chapter education has a long history. It is an
interesting fact that the traditional mode of education exists here along
with the modern forms of education even today. However the changes in
