This is a practice based course of IDSP for children and adolescent aged 9 to 18 at community/village level. This course has been evolved in response to the exclusionary nature of the formal education system and the impractical and irrelevant learning and literacy it imparts to the students. In the formal education system the students become mere imitators and crammers and their education has no practical implication in their life. The prime objectives of the course are to develop critical thinking and literacy skills of the learners through indigenous learning. The innovative curriculum comprised of the contextual contents from the relative community and innovative pedagogic approach of coding and decoding makes the learners provide learners with real opportunity to critical understand the social, political and economic settings of their communities. The instructors are selected from the relative communities and trained to deliver the course. The learning process is not confined to the class rooms but in fact their class rooms are their communities and they need to engage their community member in the learning through discussions, work in the fields, observation. The engagement is aimed to create self and community awareness among learners and community members which will lead increased sense of self-reliance, cooperation, unity and community initiative for their community problems. The course also focuses the literacy skills including skills of reading, writing, composition comprehension, numeracy, analysis and understanding of contextual realities. After successful completion of this course the learners will qualify for the Transformative Citizenship and Social Enterprise at District Level.
Coding and Decoding: (Critical Pedagogy)
This is one of the most useful methods which applied in the community based course titled Transformative Citizenship Course . This method is derived from the Freirian model of education, aimed to ensure a problem posing education through codes from the concerned districts. Codes around social, political and economic issues have been put up in the book and the learners decode the codes in step-wise process to understand the context, story, elements, relevance and sort out related issues. This method ensures the learning is practical as the process of decoding entails six steps including 1 what 2. Why 3 Connecting with contextual realities 4. Find the root cause of issues 5. Developing action plan 6. Implementation and Follow up. This method requires the student to explore real issues of their community by physically visiting, know their issues and enable them address those issues besides gaining literacy skills.