Rishi Valley Rural Education Centre: A Krishnamur Ti Foundation School

RISHI VALLEY RURAL
EDUCATION CENTRE
A Krishnamur ti Foundation School
“A school is a place where

one learns about both the importance
of knowledge and its limitations.”
KRISHNAMURTI ON EDUCATION:
The intent of the schools is to equip the child with the most excellent technological proficiency
so that the student may function with clarity and efficiency in the modern world. A far more
important purpose than this is to create the right climate and environment so that the child
may develop fully as a complete human being. This means giving the child the opportunity to
flower in goodness so that he or she is rightly related to people, things and ideas, to the whole
of life. To live is to be related.
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986) whose life and teachings spanned the greater part of the 20th Century, is regarded by many
as one who has had the most profound impact on human consciousness in modern times.
He travelled round the world till the age of 90 giving talks, writing, holding discussions. His purpose was to set humankind
unconditionally free from the destructive limitations of the conditioned mind.
The Krishnamurti Foundation India was founded to share his purpose with the larger world. It patronizes several renowned
schools that teach in his vision of education truly free of fear, study centres, publications, archives, rural outreach programs and more.
INTRODUCTION:
Krishnamurti enunciated an educational philosophy based on his
understanding that human beings are responsible for the world they
create, and have the capability to create a better world, provided they
cultivate a long vision imbued with moral insight.
He chose an isolated valley in the interior of Andhra Pradesh located
near his birthplace in Madanapalle, in south India to establish his first
school. From the very beginning, Rishi Valley was more than a school.
In keeping with Krishnamurti’s vision, several outreach programmes
have grown as part of Rishi Valley Rural Education Centre. They are
resource centre for the countryside. These include an innovative
programme for rural education, a health centre which conducts
research in mental health and chronic diseases, a Bio-diversity Park,
a Bird Study unit, and watershed management initiative for water and
soil conservation.
RISHI VALLEY RURAL EDUCATION CENTRE The program aims to:
(RVEC OR REC) ∙ Promote village-based education
Rishi Valley Rural Education Centre (REC) consists of RIVER ∙ Train teachers and teacher trainers in a multi-grade multi-level
(Rishi Valley Institute for Educational Resources), a residential methodology (MGML) developed by RIVER
Middle School for students from the immediate ∙ Publish instructional materials in the MGML methodology
neighbourhood and multiple ‘Satellite Schools’. While RIVER, ∙ Draw working children into the school system
along with two ‘Satellite Schools’, and the Middle School are ∙ Create green spaces around the school campus for the
located on REC’s 14-acre campus, the other ten ‘Satellite conservation of bio-diversity in general and medicinal plants
Schools’ are located in nearby hamlets. in particular
∙ Raise awareness of health, nutrition and sanitation
∙ Actively involve the community in the day-to-day
management of their children’s school
RISHI VALLEY SCHOOL-IN -A-BOX:

An award-winning pedagogy, it is a true translation of Krishnamurti’s vision of education. The kit is a framework of Multi-Grade
Multi-Level (MGML) teaching aids and Ladder of Learning. Designed and developed by RIVER team and field-tested for five
years in Rishi Valley Satellite Schools between 1988 and 1992.
The program is designed in a way that breaks down topics and subjects of learning in the simplest forms across age groups,
where children can all sit together and learn at the same time, from their teachers and from each other; in the true spirit of
community learning.
Since its first edition in Telugu, the methodology has spread far and wide, across and beyond the borders of India.
RIVER -
INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES Implementations have been done across 14 states (Andhra
Rishi Valley Institute for Educational Resources (RIVER) is Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Himachal
the teacher training and resource development wing of Rishi Pradesh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh,
Valley Rural Education Centre. It is located on 14 acres of land Maharashtra, Orissa, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and West
on the Rishi Valley campus. Bengal) by their respective State Governments. In some states
the program exists in pockets, in others it is scaled up to cover
SATELLITE SCHOOLS entire districts.
These are elementary schools, located where there are no Notable among these are:
adequate government schools. Each Satellite School serves as 1. The Nalli Kalli Programme in Karnataka where the
resource centre for the village in which it is located. Adult methodology is being used across the entire state at class
literacy programmes, integration of local traditional arts in the 1 and 2 level.
form of puppet shows, health and nutrition projects converge 2. The Tamil Nadu’s ABL programme which has been first
in this location. The Satellite Schools use the multi-grade tried out in Chennai Corporation Schools then expanded to
methodology (MGML) developed by RIVER. the entire state.
The Satellite Schools are gradually extending their reach These, and other implementations listed above cover 250,000
through interaction with Government Schools, and helping primary schools and more than 10 million children
organize reading workshops, metric melas (mathematics (2013-UNICEF Report).
festivals) among other joint activities. . As of 2019, the government of Andhra Pradesh has an ongoing
project, called ALA, covering grades 1-5 in 1571 schools across
FORGING PARTNERSHIPS 14 districts in the state. RIVER is the implementing partner in the
The MGML methodology of the RIVER program brought project. To improve efficiency, productivity, transparency and
together organisations, institutions and governments dedicated accountability, RIVER is trying out on a pilot basis integrating
to the cause of education. digital tablets for teaching and assessment.
ACADEMIC COLLABORATIONS :
As part of RIVER’s endeavour to understand the implications of
multi-grade education systems in more diverse communities, and
to benefit from the contemporary pedagogical theories and
practices, it is building connections outside the country.
University of Regensburg in Germany, University of Wurzburg,
Germany and University of St. Gallen, Switzerland have long-term
collaborative projects with RIVER including placement of
students from their universities in RIVER projects.
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION:

RIVER has been achieving some remarkable milestones in its
journey towards tenable education for all.
2004 – Won the first prize of the Global Development
Network (GDN) Award for the “Most Innovative
Development Project 2004”
2009 – “Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship –
Social Entrepreneurs of the Year, India Winners” was awarded
to the Co-Directors of RIVER, Rama and Padmanabha Rao.
2011 – Awarded the Jindal Prize in the field of Education.
2012 – The Global Journal (published from Geneva and New
York) ranked RIVER as one of the top 100 most influential
NGOs in the world.
2016 – RiVER is one of the ‘Millennium Alliance’ awardees
(R3) under the Education Sector.
2017 – Winner of the National Contest on Social Innovation.
2016 of MoEA & NITI Aayog as one of the top 20 social
impact innovations that offer viable solutions to the socio-
economic problems of India.
2018 – An article in New York Times on RIVER and its
methodolog y ( https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/04/
opinion/teaching-children-reform-education.html)
Rishi Valley Rural Education Centre, Rishi Valley, Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh 517352, India
TEL: 91-9493547322 | 91-9493547822 | 91-7893644497 | 91-7893644717
Email: [email protected]

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