The project aimed to demonstrate the impact of an empowerment-based mentoring model for adolescent girls. The mentoring model attempts to develop leadership skills, allow girls to develop critical thinking skills, examining and changing their perception of themselves and their aspirations, and enable actions related to themselves, their families and their communities. The model could then be used as a policy advocacy tool to ensure the integration of the model in regular school curricular and pedagogical approaches.
Action Research for Building Resilient School Systems – Resources
Below is a list of all the resources developed during the course Bihar Mentorship Project. This was a school-based Action Research project operational in Bihar where CBPS initially implemented in-school modules and later responded to school closures during Covid-19 by sending regular learning-postcards to children. These resources include a variety of outputs such as a Toolkit on building resilient school-systems for education in emergency, Teaching Learning Materials like our postcards, all our research reports and a documentary.
In order to keep this space dynamic, we will keep updating this from time-to-time with the latest and relevant resources. If you have any suggestions for resources that can be added to this space, please write to us at director@cbps.in.
Resources
1. Documentary You have got Mail – Chitthi Aayi Hai (on YouTube)
2. Building resilient school systems for comprehensive response to education in emergencies – A Comprehensive Toolkit
- English Version
3. Bihar Mentorship Project Impact Evaluation Reports
– Baseline Summary
- English version
- Hindi version
– Endline Report
- English version
4. The Wire published an article titled, ‘What a Survey of Children in Bihar Revealed About Online Schooling’ written by Jyotsna Jha and Neha Ghatak. It was published on 25 May 2020.
5. Impact of Covid19 on Education and Lives of Marginalised Children – 5-State Study
- Report – Life in the Time of Covid-19 – Mapping the impact of Covid-19 on the lives of school going children especially girls in India
- National Policy Brief – Gendered impact of COVID-19 on education of school-aged children in India
- Policy Brief – Gendered impact of COVID-19 on education of school-aged children in Bihar
- Policy Brief – Gendered impact of COVID-19 on education of school-aged children in Assam
- Policy Brief – Gendered impact of COVID-19 on education of school-aged children in Uttar Pradesh
6. The Effect of the Covid-19 Pandemic and Economic Distress on Education: A View from the Margins
- Short Report
- Recording of webinar - YouTube
7. Learning through Letters – Postcards – Complete Pack
8. A presentation based on our Covid-response intervention – Learning Through Letters
- BMP Learning Through Letters Presentation
9. Curriculum Linkages Report
10. Bihar Mentorship Project – In-Class Module
11. Teacher’s Workshop Reports
- Orientation Workshop for Teachers
- Critical thinking Workshop for Teachers
- Covid Response Workshop for Teachers
- Education in Emergency – In-Person Workshop for Teachers
- Education in Emergency – Blended Workshop for Teachers (Event and assignment summaries for both the workshops can be found here).
12. Review of Policy Documents related to the Covid-19 pandemic:
CBPS on behalf of the Malala Fund Champions Network conducted a detailed review of all the government circulars and notifications related to COVID-19 from – 1) Central Government of India 2) Uttar Pradesh 3) Bihar and 4) Assam. The review was conducted from the perspective of rights and entitlements for children along with covid safety protocols for safe school re-opening.
The short note is a brief analysis of the significant points that emerged from the review.
13. Paper
Neha Ghatak, Niveditha Menon and Jyotsna Jha wrote a paper titled, ‘Developing Mentoring Approaches for Transformative Education: Context and Challenges‘ in a publication titled, ‘Transformative Education: Meanings and Policy Implications‘. This has been published by the Global Campaign for Education. It was edited by Vernor Muñoz Villalobos and Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia. The paper looks at the challenges and issues of implementing a mentoring approach for transformation education in Bihar, India. It can be viewed here.
14. Bihar Mentorship Project Research Report
