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Journal of Social Welfare and Management

Volume  8, Issue 2, April - August 2016, Pages 101-104
 

Review Article

Incorporating Hygiene & Sanitation issues in School Curriculum at different levels of Education

Neha Jain*, Pallavi Dubey*

Assistant Professor, Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Dayalbagh, Agra.

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  Sanitation and hygiene is the core of life; importance of which is being neglected especially when it comes to disabled people and feminine gender. Our honorable Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi initiated for Swacch Bharat Abhiyan in order to introduce cleanliness to the core of the country to eradicate the root problem of sanitation facility. Although integration of the needs of disabled people is felt neglected in this programme, which should has been necessarily introduced. To change the current hygiene behavior perspectives and continue better hygiene practices in the future, it is important to make people aware to sanitation related issues from initial level that is from school level to university level. This idea to organise school curriculum is the integration of relevant sustainable water, hygiene and sanitation topics into school education in order to increase pupil’s knowledge, change attitudes and encourage action. Bringing water and sanitation issues into the school curriculum provides a means of encouraging young people to understand not only the wider water and sanitation concepts, but also the effects of their own behaviour on water, its quality and eco systems. The development of the life-skills approach for performing daily basic activities is the part of the existing curriculum for disabled students. Some current issues like designing of sanitary for disabled, overcoming the barriers to accessible sanitation, provision of cost disabled & friendly toilets for disabled and appropriate practical measures/strategies of sanitation for disabled lives in both rural and urban areas should also be included in curriculum for the great benefit to the inclusion of the neglected section of the society. It can be done by introducing these topics in various school subjects such as English, social studies, moral and social sciences, environmental science, home science. This paper throws light on the need for including the sanitation related topics in school and university curriculum. The successful implementation of these subjects and its benefits for disabled students and nation will also be discuss.

Keywords: Disabled; Implementing Curriculum; Sanitation Related Issues; Life Skill Education for Disable.


Corresponding Author : Neha Jain*