Come April, students studying in 24 government schools in the capital will be seen developing their “entrepreneurial mindsets” as part of the Delhi government’s Entrepreneurship Mindset Curriculum (EMC).
Around 24,000 students from class 9 onwards will be listening to stories of entrepreneurs and engaging in activity-based learning to develop a mindset that will help them become “job-givers” instead of “job-seekers”— a vision education minister Manish Sisodia has been highlighting since the curriculum was first announced last December.
All set to be launched on April 1, the pilot project will be carried out till May 10, following which feedback will be taken from the 24 schools and incorporated in the final curriculum, to be implemented across all schools in July.
“This course is the need of the hour,” said M Shariq Ahmed, principal, School Of Excellence in Kalkaji, where the curriculum will be taught Monday onward. Pointing towards the lack of conditioning in children, Ahmed said the EMC will encourage them to develop out-of-the-box ideas. “Conventionally, parents tell their children to get jobs with good packages. EMC will open a window in their minds that there is an alternative and it can lead them to success,” he said.
Read more of this in a report by Kainat Sarfaraz published in Hindustan Times....
