Hello and welcome to the academy so let us take up today’s editorials on the Hindu newspaper so the first article we are going to take up is about social justice sexual education the need of our times so why we need such a kind of educations which are oriented towards establishing social justice and
Awareness about sex and sexuality so recently we have seen there were problems in terms of clash between two cast within the school and college premises and between two religion and then there is also intersection between cast and gender so in the toxic relationship we have seen the clashes and then adverse
Consequences on female counterparts so in order to address all these problems we require education which is oriented towards establishing social justice and create awareness about sex and sexuality So based on this we’ll discuss what is about social social justice based education so social justice based education requires a critical thinking
Where the education instills habit of critical thinking in the mindset of the young peoples or Young Generation where it is also termed as Socratic education system under this the individual will develop a mindset of questioning every ideology and Faith to get well reasoned answer so they don’t accept anything on
Surface they’ll be skeptical and ask question in for every ideologies and Faith to break these stereotypes and this will lead to elimination of discrimination based on birth like cast race where certain social status will be assigned from the birth itself and these social status are unchangeable and
Rigid so we require a mindset of critical thinking in order to eliminate such kind of stereotypes emerging out of discrimination so hence this in the long term leads to social justice where every individual will be treated equally and equitability is also ensured so hence when we give such a kind of
Education individuals will see other individuals as humans not based on their social status so hence it will in the long term makes individuals to reimagine one’s own soci societies so it will overhaul entire societies by reimagining the way of thinking and then the second aspect of social justice
Based education is we need to develop education to include Arts and Humanities in a right mixture even in the technical educations so as of now in technical educations like engineering and then medical there is no room for arts and humanities so here Arts is required in order to think Beyond
Ideologies so uh in the social religious reform mement of 19th century there was one critic that critic says that there was lack of consideration towards Arts where the art and culture of India is inclusive in nature where there is mixture of different cultures so hence creating awareness and promoting Arts will promote our
Fraternity and Brotherhood so hence the Arts will make individuals to move and see beyond ideologies which is fixed in our mindsets so we we require Humanities like social studies like ethics in our education system where the self- questioning attitude will increase and individuals will search alternative idea
Ideas which are alternative to that of dominant ideas so hence these kind of educations which involve Arts and Humanities is required not to break the dominant idea ideologies and make new ideas emerge and third point is the the education system should made in such a way that it should increase the tolerance
Levels in our younger Generations where the youth should respect every individual’s opinions perspectives without judging it so this is lacking in our Indian Society so it will increase the coexistence between different Faith between different cultures so this kind of social justice based education is required for democratic
Nations where there is different kind of opinions and perspectives and disagreements so hence it should not have a negative impact on social Unity so hence education will require tolerance and increase the coexistence in our society and then fourth point is education the social justice based education will always build leaders and not
Narcissists here leaders are uh ready to hear the voices of weaker sections and they are ready to raise the voices on behalf of weaker sections and they are ready to sacrifice for the justice of weaker section however narcissist will only want to control the weaker sections they they use we sections to
Increase their power so we don’t need such leaders in our society but we need leaders who have a concern particular concern regarding weaker sections so as of now our president is daati mmu so the intentions was to uh promote the tribal culture and give the long due
Uh justice which was awaited for the tribal community so this showcases the leadership in this kind of act where the tribal Community who are who are weaker sections are being represented in one of the highest office of our country and then moving forward we’ll look into what are the uh aspects regarding sexual
Education so here under sexual education there are multiple aspects or objectives could be reached so the first one is honoring different sexes so by honoring different uh sexs we will increase the respect towards different gender identities where the respect towards different gender identities is necessary in order to have a healthy interpersonal
Relationship and this kind of education will eliminate discrimination towards particular sex like transgenders where it will instill the mindset that everybody has the right to live and find their livelihood so their livelihood should not be based on the sex they are so hence it will lead to in the
Long-term social justice so when we eliminate such kind of domination or discrimination it will eventually lead to increased principle of consent in the sexual intercourse and respecting personal boundaries of each individual so we have seen in several instances in the movies like pink where there is a slogan that is no means
No and then we have seen the film actors having a great principles like sharuk Khan where he always knocked the door of his wife before entering her room and he follows the same act with her daughter also so this ensures there is gender equality and every individual
Irrespective of sex has their own life and privacy these things should not depend on sex so this will eventually lead to elimination of gender discrimination and gender violence so we require such a kind of sexual education and then this will also lead to reduction in this sexual abuse by the
Adults and then the second point is the sexual education should lead to respect of every sexual preferences so this will obviously lead to inclusion or greater inclusion of lgbtq community in the mainstream Society where their sexual orientation and preferences should not decide their social status their social status should be
Independent of their sexual orientation and sexual preferences so sexual education has this duty to establish in our society and third point is in order to maintain the sexual health we require sexual education where the delaying marriage and delaying sexual intercourses will preserve and protect the reproductive health of females and then the infant’s
Health so it also prevents the transmission of sexually transmitted diseases so this is where the sexual education is important and then we have also seen the education which aims to establish social justice so what should be done so sexual education is rarely being taught in Indian schools so we need to
Increase inclusion of sexual education through the existing programs which it is provided here like what are the existing programs like adolescent reproductive and Sexual Health strategy and National adolescent health program so in these kind of programs we need to increase the sexual awareness through sexual education and then we need to
Train teachers and we need to frame particular curriculum which point towards increasing sexual awareness through sexual education we need to reform education system in order to increase social justice and then sexual sex and sexuality awareness so this is all about this article so let us move on to next article so this
Article talks about women’s political empowerment more talk and less action so this article says that there is more rhetoric regarding women’s political empowerment but there is less action on the ground so political empowerment falls in the social justice aspect under the Preamble which talks about political economic and social
Justice so political empowerment leads to political Justice for women where there will be equal representation of women in the political leadership so we have approximately 50% of women’s population so that kind of uh equal ratio should also be represented in the political leadership so hence we require certain
Measures there are two kind of measures according to this artic one is legislation regarding reservation of women in the Parliament and State Legislative Assembly which has already been enacted and second is providing voluntary reservation in the political Parties so the first aspect is involuntary where the law is compelling the political parties to provide reservation to women however the second is voluntary where they are Tak taking cognizance of women’s problem and lack of equality of women in the political landscape so hence the political parties
Should come forward to give more seats or more tickets to women while contesting the election is what is being said in this article so here this article says that the legislation which is providing reservation of 33% is a right is a step in right direction but the process starts only after
2026 only after the delimitation happens so hence this will this will not lead to a fruition in our upcoming time but we should wait only after the year 2026 in order to get the results or to provide Justice to women and second point is despite there is a consensus of
All the political leaders in passing the women reservation bill but there is less than 10% tickets were given to menen in the recent elections which are being held in the five states so this is where the contradiction arises where on the one hand there is consensus regarding women reservation
Bill on the other hand they are not providing tickets for women there is less than 10% of allocation of tickets for women in the recent elections which will be held in five states so hence here the political Justice which is a important objective which is mentioned in the Preamble will be
Delayed so hence this article calls for parties to reserve tickets for women where there are examples given in this article like Congress in the previous elections has given 40% of tickets to woman and then uh the TMC part party in the West Bengal which uh the in the recently held election
Gave around 46 tickets to wom in that 4 46 tickets 32 women won the election so here this parties stands as a inspiration for other parties so other parties should also follow their practices in providing tickets to woman so this will increase representation of women in the political
Landscape and they will take better decision not to socially Empower all the women of our nation so we need to spare head such kind of paradoxical attitude in our political representativ and they should show the real intent of giving woman long denied Justice which will lead to political
Justice so this is about this article so let us move on to next article so this article talks about how universities and Industry can collaborate so why this article becomes important our education system is long been criticized that it h it has a outdated syllabus and there is less applicability
In the theories or the subjects which are being taught so hence in order to curb these kind of or in order to address these kind of critics we need to collaborate universities and industries where the market demand will be known to the universities our higher education institution and based on that demand we
Can reform our syllabus so this is first point where we can reform our syllabus based on the market demand and then second point is the industries also will come forward to fund the research which is happening in the universities so that they can leverage and capitalize on
Those kind of research in order to bring new products into market so given all these benefits by collaboration of Industries and universities we need to take certain measures to fructify the collaboration between industry and higher education institutions so the first measure we have to take is there should be shared
Goals so objective of research should be uh converging where for universities they are good at research and building theories however the industries all always expect the profitability in those kind of research and the products which are coming out of those researches so hence there should be a shared goals and these shared goals
Will increase collaboration between two and then second point is so any research which are being made by the higher education institution should have a greater applicability it should not be jargon which is on the paper but it should have a better application capacity however also Industries should give some
Time for universities in order to develop particular theories so they should delay their expectation of getting profitability in a short-term Manner and they should focus more on Research with collaborating with the universities so in this regard they should find middle ground where they should delay their EXP expectation and profitability and then
Higher education should increase their applicability of the research so the middle ground should be maintained and the third point is there should be a better communication CH channels between higher education institution and then the industries and fourth point is uh there is an apprehension by our Industries when they
Are Cons considering such kind of collaboration where the apprehension is whether the the research which is being funded by the industries would be disclosed in the theoretical papers which are published so hence in order to alleviate such kind of apprehension there should be a non-disclosure agreement between the industries and higher education
Institutions so this will alleviate the apprehension of the industries so hence with the better collaboration there is a win-win situation for both universities and industries where small higher education institution will be better funded and they can reform their research infrastructure and then the larger higher education institution will be
Included in chatting out long-term Solutions with emerging Technologies and research and this will lead to increased patent filing and also it increases the student intake or the enrollment in such higher education institutions and then there will be better collaborations between Industries so to give a start of such
Kind of collaboration there should be a Project based collaboration initially so this will increase in the long term a better collaboration in Industries long-term projects and higher education potentials so this is about this article so this is for it today and we’ll take up more articles in our upcoming sessions thank you
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