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Cover Story - Nurturing the young blossoms
“We believe that sex education should start as early from the primary classes as it is important for a child to begin to start understanding and accepting themselves.”
“School based sex education can be important and an effective way of enhancing knowledge, attitude and behaviour of students.”
“Most problems of adolescence are due to failure in understanding the anatomical, morphological and psychological changes expected during adolescence.”
When started in 2003, the dream and vision of Sindhi Seva Samiti extended to provide quality education at an affordable price for the all round personality development by starting its school at Hebbal, Bangalore. Today the school offers its students a holistic, progressive, creative system of education that blends a sense of responsibility and caters to the all round development of the individual. The school also believes to promote social awareness, duty consciousness and team work, which forms an integral part of education. MENTOR’s Ms. Manal Khan hand holds you to The Sindhi High School located in Bangalore with desired inputs from the Principals and the concerned authorities.....
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Case Study - The Sinister Net
“Since the cycle of addiction often starts at an early age, schools have a major role in prevention and treatment of this disease.”
“Just as corporate organizations are recognizing that rehabilitation, rather than retrenchment, is the better option, schools must not expel or bar students who have developed a problem with substance abuse.”
It is no longer street children who are found entangled in the sinister net of addictions; for when we look around scrupulously addiction seems to have affected all classes of society. To add to this discomfiture is the fact there no longer lies a barrier of age. Although society is a witness to the use of a variety of drugs, drug addiction seems to have become a threat of great proportion to society only recently. Mr Rahul Luther, an expert from Hope Trust India talks to MENTOR about Addiction and Youth...
Grimy, sunken eyed teenagers are seen huddled together near coffee shops, bridges and on pavements, sharing anything from cigarettes to petrol cans---a hapless lot! They stare at passersby and get doses of wrinkled noses and hurt sensibilities. But have we ever thought as to what pushes them into this state? These teenagers seem unable to elicit a response from the denizens of this desensitized metropolis.
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Legends - Storm and Stress
Are we there for our adolescents when they most need us? The paradox of adolescence is that it can be at once a time of storm and stress and a time of exuberant growth. The "father of adolescence", a legend today-- Granville Stanley Hall is best known for his prodigious scholarship that shaped adolescent themes in psychology, education and popular culture.
Granville Stanley Hall was born in a small farming village in Massachusetts with a modest and conservative upbringing. He has produced over 400 books and articles and became the first president of Clark University, Massachusetts. His greatest achievement has been his research work on child centered research, education and adolescence to a society in transition. He was instrumental in the development of educational psychology and attempted to determine the effect adolescence has on education.
"The Contents of Children's Minds" an 1883 publication of Hall helped him establish himself as the leader of the "child-study" movement which aimed to utilize scientific findings on what children know and when they learn it as a way of understanding the history of and the means of progress in human life. Searching for a source of personal and social rebirth, Hall turned to the theory of evolution for a biologically based ideal of human development, the optimum condition of which was health. His pure and vigorous adolescent countered the fragmented, deadening and reutilized qualities of urban industrial life. Hall theorized adolescence as the beginning of a new life and welded this vision to a scientific claim that this new life could contribute to the evolution of the race, if properly administered.
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Pro's & Con's - Are we ready for it?
“Educating and enlightening kids about such issues help them distinguish between good and bad touch”.
“While children may be aware of the social evils prevalent in society, the challenge is to make them realize the importance of personal care and adequately be prepared to handle any adverse situation.”
Everybody has a perspective on whether or not Sex Education should be implemented in schools but it is important to reason out as to why is there a need to address these issues while at School. MENTOR’s Ms. Zofia Anna and Shakuntala Patel elicit varied perspectives from different individuals in the space of education. The objective behind this piece is solely to give our readers some food for thought to delve deeper into this much debatable topic and view it from its entirety.
"The sex education that I stand for must have for its object the conquest and sublimation of the sex passion. Such education should automatically serve to bring home to children the essential distinction between man and brute, to make them realize that it is man's special privilege and pride to be gifted with the faculties of head and heart both; that he is a thinking no less than a feeling animal". - Mahatma Gandhi
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Feature - The rationale behind Anger
“When anger becomes a full-blown rage our judgment and thinking can become impaired and we are more likely to do and say unreasonable and irrational things”
“Anger is unavoidable. Feelings of anger are triggered by factors in our environment and are accompanied by certain physiological reactions.”
Anger has become a common problem today for all age groups irrespective of gender. Has dealing with anger effectively become an inability among adolescents? As we attempt to discover this growing concern with school going children and adolescents let us also understand the role schools can play with the support and co-operation of teachers and parents. Mr. Ravi Samuel, a certified rehabilitation professional and psychotherapist with vast experience of working with teenagers shares his experiences with MENTOR’s Divya Khanna.
“I was angry on someone one day and in my anger I burnt my hand by keeping it on a hot pan”, confesses a student from a metro city in India. According to the annual survey conducted by EduMedia India in the year 2009, “uncontrolled anger” was one of the top three concerns of students in many schools today. Is it not getting common these days to find two students swearing at each other on the playground?
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