Vidya Bharati Run Girls School in Jaipur Receives Commonwealth Award for Maths Project Led by Dr Lalit Kishore

 Vidya Bharati Run Girls School in Jaipur Receives Commonwealth Award for Maths Project Led by Dr Lalit Kishore


Association for Science Education (ASE) 2024 Annual Conference was held from 4th to 6th January at the University of Northampton's Waterside Campus in the United Kingdom. The ASE Conference Technicians day (5th January) was officially sponsored by Philip Harris, part of the Findel Group. The Commonwealth Association of Science, Technology and Mathematics Educators (CASTME) partnered with Findel International Education Resources and Philip Harris to sponsor awards. The names of the award recipients are announced at the ASE conference.

The CASTME Vice Chair (Awards), Kathleen Nugent, intimated that the project "Intervening to feminize senior school mathematics with STEAM and daily life connections" led by Dr Lalit Kishore, a resident educator in local community, at the Senior Secondary Girls Adarsh Vidya Mandir School in Jaipur, India, has won the CASTME Commendation Award Certificate. The school is being run by Vidya Bharati that aims at 'providing quality education since 1952 and is committed to educating the young generation according to Indian values and culture.'

The feminist pedagogy based mathematics learning project was designed with nine girls of grade ten who reported to the schools after two-year shut-down of the school due to COVID-19 crisis. For 15 topics of grade ten mathematics course, the topic-readiness learning sheets were prepared which emphasised language and reading of mathematics, The learning sheets were meant to be transacted which had text and visual vocabulary building exercises, reading of formulas and equations, micro-poems on the topics and linkage to STEM application of the topics. For completing the learning sheets collaborative and group learning strategies were mobilized. The achievement motive of girls and confidence got enhanced to face the ensuing public exam which had suffered the setback due to the COVID crisis of two years.

It may be mentioned here that the award scheme aims at 'sharing best practice across the STEM disciplines and to demonstrate the importance of STEM to local environments, schools and communities'

The CASTME adds, "Awards are offered for educational projects, which address the social or human context of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Any group or individual involved in any form of education in the widest senses, formal or informal, within societies can enter including pre-school, Primary or Secondary. Additionally, Tertiary education projects can be entered from school, college, university or from communities."


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