Ramakrishna Mission to launch pilot project in 200 schools to ‘Create Intergenerational Bonding’

The government has signed an agreement with Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission (RKM) to implement “Create Intergenerational Bonding”, a nationwide initiative to tackle intergenerational challenges faced by modern-day families through qualitative studies in 200 pilot schools.

The project aims to address the challenges faced by modern families. Ramakrishna Mission will be designing and implementing 20 evidence based co-learning games to be used in schools.

Through the deal, and under the department of social justice and empowerment (DoSJE), the RKM will provide research into the intergenerational challenges faced by modern-day families through qualitative studies covering 50 representative schools across four regions of the country.

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RKM to provide teacher training, co-learning game sessions

It will also provide certification training for teachers and the roll-out of co-learning game sessions across 200 pilot schools nationwide. Notably, a bilingual English-Hindi resource centre website will be developed to support teachers in conducting sessions.

An independent assessment study will evaluate the outcomes of the initiative and inform its future scale-up across the country, according to an official press release.

“The initiative builds on the Ministry’s existing senior citizen welfare ecosystem, including the Atal Vayo Abhyuday Yojana (AVYAY). It is designed to enable elders to pass on wisdom and values, parents to bridge tradition and modernity, and children to grow up rooted in culture while feeling emotionally secure,” it read.

Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, an institution inspired by the teachings of Sri Ramakrishna Paramhans and Swami Vivekananda and backed by over a century of service in education, health, culture and humanitarian work, will serve as the implementing partner for the initiative.

It also added that a knowledge development partner will support the research, design and assessment components.

Swami Sarvalokananda, RKM Secretary, said that Ramakrishna Mission believed in service through education and character-building adding that the Mission is glad to partner with the Department of Social Justice and Empowerment to help families rediscover the wisdom of their elders and pass on shared values to the next generation.