KV students to learn new subject compassion towards animals

                                          http://educationvijay.com/newsshow.aspx?newsid=7075

In order to inculcate compassion in children towards animals Kendriya Vidyalayas across the country will now be including "Compassionate Citizen" as part of their curriculum.

What is Compassionate Citizen?

• Compassionate Citizen is a humane education programme that has been designed specifically to teach children to be kind to animals.
• The Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan on Tuesday, May 10, issued a notification to all its schools, asking them to integrate the programme, into the official curriculum via languages, science, social studies, environmental, and value education curricula.
• The course has been prepared by animal rights advocacy group People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).
• The course has been designed to teach 8 to 12-year-old children to be kind to animals and has been endorsed by the Animal Welfare Board of India and the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE).

Important points of the notification:

• "The programme offers tools and lesson plans to teach children to view animals as feeling, sensitive beings. It consists of a teacher's guide, reproducible activity sheets, a reading unit and a 28-minute video - all devised to help students use their reading and reasoning skills to examine the complex lives of animals, how our relationship with them has changed over time and how to respond when animals are in trouble," an official statement said.
• "The programme has to be included in the monthly curriculum as an extra-curricular day activity or a one-day workshop. The course has been divided into four different sections -- The amazing world of animals, Animals and their feelings, Changing time and changing minds and Making humane choices," it added.

The notification came after a meeting between representatives from PETA and KVS officials.

"PETA has distributed the educational resource materials in English and Hindi to all Kendriya Vidyalaya schools. The programme is available in English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Malayalam and Telugu and can be made available in other languages, if needed," Poorva Joshipura, PETA India CEO,said.

Source:-  Indiatoday