The College students in Haryana will now learn valuable life lessons from iconic Hollywood and Bollywood movies. For, the State Government is set to introduce “movie watching”, “journal writing”, “developing entrepreneurial models” among other activities in the College curriculum from this academic year.
Moving away from the traditional methods of teaching, the Department of Higher Education, Haryana has developed a foundation booklet –RISE (Reflect,
Innovate, Strive, Excel) which will be introduced for the first time in the Colleges, to inspire and empower students.
Several interesting activities have been chalked out in the 72-page booklet that will be distributed to the first year students (academic year 2019-20) in Government Colleges of Excellence in the first phase of an ambitious learning project.
Activities like watching Bollywood movies namely ‘Dangal’, ‘Lakshya’, ‘Chak De’, ‘Iqbal’, ‘Lagaan’, ‘Munna Bhai’, ‘ABCD (Anybody can dance)’, ‘Secret Superstar’ and Hollywood movies namely ‘Kung Fu Panda’, ‘Up’ have been included in the booklet to deliver a strong message and teach a lesson or two to the young minds.
American biographical drama ‘Hidden Figures’ and Bollywood’s ‘Swades’ movie have been
recommended to celebrate critical thinking and decision making while American
science fiction action-adventure film ‘Tron’ and biographical drama ‘The Pirates of Silicon Valley’ has been recommended to teach the students about the power and misuse of technology.
Apart from the movies, the booklet mentions ‘words of wisdom’ from Mahatma Gandhi, Swami Vivekananda, Sant Kabir, Gautama Buddha to inspire the students.
A separate column ‘Pride of our land’ has been included to tell inspiring stories of renowned
personalities from Haryana namely Olympic medallist Sakshi Malik, Paralympics medallist Deepa Malik, Commonwealth and Asian Games medallist Vinesh Phogar, author and philanthropist Navin Gulia and Poet Surya Kavi Dada Lakhmi Chand.
Inspiring stories and interesting snippets have been used to demonstrate the power of self belief and self motivation in various chapters of the booklet.
To encourage the students to become successful entrepreneurs, a separate chapter has been included highlighting India’s richest self-made woman Kiran Mazumdar Shaw and a reference to ‘Band Baaja Baaraat’ movie, in which the lead-duo are wedding planners.
The campaigns like ‘save the girl child’ and ‘say no to dowry’ also finds a mention in the booklet to teach the student not to buckle under social pressure.
Encouraging the students to become guardians of the world by planting trees, reuse and recycling, a chapter has been included giving example of Rock Garden created out of waste material by late Nek Chand.
“The foundation booklet has been specially designed to develop positive psychology, life and job skills in the College students. We have released the first version of this booklet which will be distributed to the first year students,” said a senior official of
Department of Higher Education, Haryana while talking to The Pioneer.
Giving more details, he said that the booklet is divided into four sections with a section on chapter plan and practice.
Each of 20 chapters has some words of wisdom, instances of rising above challenges and achievements of our people who have brought glory to our state, he said.
Initially, this booklet will be used in mentorship groups and copies will be distributed to students and teachers in 9 colleges.
The book content prepared by the professors of Government Colleges, has been augmented with interesting and useful internet resources, especially with videos in Hindi which many be accessed by the student for self building, he added.
In Haryana, around 1.5 lakh students take admission in colleges every year.