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By Marcus Dam
KOLKATA, SEPT. 26. Students in secondary schools in West Bengal are to be given lessons in gender relations, adolescence problems and AIDS awareness, but not before their teachers are oriented to impart what the State Government has chosen to describe as ``lifestyle education.'' A manual for teachers providing guidelines on ways to ``sensitise'' students to the subject has been prepared. The opinion of experts and educationists will be sought to draft the syllabus. Environmental studies are also being introduced as a compulsory subject in senior classes at the secondary and higher secondary levels. This is in response to a directive by the Supreme Court and the recommendations of the National Council of Educational Research and Training . There are about 12,000 secondary and nearly 3,200 higher secondary schools in West Bengal.
Rudiments of psychology
The president of the Board of Secondary Education, Dibyendu Hota, said that lifestyle education, ``which would also encompass the rudiments of psychology,'' would first be introduced in secondary schools as a hands-on course in the next academic session. Subsequently it will be incorporated into the curriculum.'' The teacher's manual on the subject emphasises the need to develop health awareness among students who are in their adolescence with its various socially-induced psychological underpinnings. ``The subject matter, language and presentation need to be treated in a rather sensitive manner, leaving no room for any misconception,'' Debaditya Chakravarty, Principal Secretary, School Education, said. Even among guardians ``there is a fair degree of appreciation of the need for such inputs in the school curricula,'' he added. As for environmental studies, a committee of experts has been set up ``to suggest text-books and ways to incorporate the subject into the overall academic structure of higher secondary schools,'' Jyotirmoy Mukherjee, president, West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education, said.
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