ADULT AND CONTINUING EDUCATION AND EXTENSION CENTRE

Publications
Extension activities over last 3 years
Any other highlights

Publications

 • 2 books on Adult Education
 • 8 papers on Adult and Continuing Education
Of these, 5 were presented/published in international journals/fora
 • 3 booklets for neo-literates already published, 2 more in press
 • 1 video cassette on Adult Education
 • 3 audio cassettes on Post-Literacy Programme
 • 1 film on Adult Education under preparation
 • Students of the Mass Communication courses bring out, at least twice a year, the 'JU Times', a newsletter, as part of their course work.

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Extension activities over last 3 years

1. Running post-literacy continuing education programmes for neo-literates in
 • slum areas of Kolkata, in collaboration with Bangiya Saksharata Prasar Samiti, Kolkata District Committee, to offer vocational programmes (see above)
 • villages in Sonarpur Block, District 24 Parganas (South). The Centre runs Continuing Education Centres at 3 gram panchayats in this Block.

2. Three rural Continuing Education Centres have been fully equipped with TV, VCR, radio, tape-recorder etc. These centres have libraries with books, newspapers and publications on health, hygiene, employment etc., and are also provided with sports materials.

3. Arranging debates, discussions, sports competitions and social awareness programmes

4. Running training programmes in Psychiatric Social Work for rehabilitation of the mentally handicapped

5. Working for the uplift of street children in collaboration with Samannay Samity, an NGO. Awareness programmes on the environment, and courses in commercial art and kho-kho have been organised.

6. Running special courses for physically and mentally challenged persons in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Cerebral Palsy (formerly Spastics Society of Eastern India), Silence and Antara.

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Any other highlights

1. Awarded 1999 UNESCO-NML award for outstanding contribution in the field of adult education, adult literacy and continuing education.

2. 'Nodal Agency' for university departments and centres in this field in West Bengal and North-Eastern states (see above)

3. A significant part of the courses are concerned with disadvantaged and subaltern groups such as cerebral palsy patients, the speech- and hearing-impaired, neo-literates at slum and village level, and street children

4. The Centre has been entrusted by the Mass Education Extension Department of the Government of West Bengal with the evaluation of 15,000 learners of the Non-formal Education Programme in Midnapur and Howrah Districts.

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