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Campus as a domain of influence

The school management, principal, teachers, and students share a common culture and vision that binds them. This culture reflects the values that are of prime importance to all the stakeholders. A process has to be created to enable this culture. For instance, to introduce the culture of cleaning up after lunch, classwise duty allotments have to be prepared, students trained, teachers assigned for guidance, etc.  

The interactions among students (across classes), students and teachers outside the regular class time and among teachers inside the staff room are all indicators of the school culture.  

Values are not merely a philosophical discussion in the classroom. Values modelled by everyone from principal to teachers, non-teaching members and students, reflect the school's culture. The all-encompassing vision of the founders percolates down to every member of the school system and translates into the culture of the institution. Interaction with people having diverse experiences leads to completeness or holism.  Joy, mutual respect, discipline, a positive environment, collaborative effort, and constant striving for excellence are all reflectors of a vibrant school culture.

When we say CAMPUS, we refer to an ENABLING CULTURE that defines the institution and is not limited to physical boundaries or just programs conducted in the school.

What is Campus Content :

Sri Sathya Sai Vidya Vahini provides a PROCESS DOCUMENT for best practices, activities, or programs that are done by schools involving multiple stakeholders, such as students of all classes, teachers, support staff, principals, and management, and that enable a campus culture and also fulfills one or more of the objectives(IIEP) - Insightful, Inspiring, Enjoyable, Participative.

Purpose of Campus Content:

SSSVV supports a school's ‘enabling culture’ by designing processes that facilitate the creation of a culture of constant learning, foster a sense of well-being and joy, nurture the ideals of life, enable transformation, and promote opportunities for collaboration and participation of all its members. 

Campus Content is meant to support and aid schools by providing sufficient information, instructions, and resource material to facilitate the conduct of a particular program or activity toward developing the ENABLING CULTURE.

An enabling culture is characterised by inclusion, equity and participation. Schools should ensure that every child can be involved in at least one of the activities in each of the 4 Cs in each academic year.

Campus activities when designed/organised comprehensively and adequately, provide a platform/enable a learning environment to demonstrate the ‘enabling culture’ of the school as well as develop essential life skills(participation/teamwork/collaboration, leadership, to name a few), pursue personal interests and passion, boost the confidence of the children, backed by a strong ethical conduct and values-oriented foundation.

In keeping with the above, SSSVV provides a step-wise process for conducting Campus activities that facilitates nurturing the school's ‘enabling culture’.  

Some Salient aspects of the PROCESS DOCUMENT

1. Provides the NCF-SE Curricular Goals and Competencies that can be fulfilled through that program

2. Mentions the Values and Dispositions as mentioned in the NCFSE that are appropriate and relevant to that program

3. Provides pointers for Post-Activity Reflection

4. Provides a few suggestions for extending learning to other domains such as the Classroom, the Community and daily life.

Components of Campus Content:

1. Process Document: A thorough guide  to conduct a school program or activity that reflects the ‘enabling culture’ of the school as well as nurture the values and dispositions as outlined in the NCF-SE .

It will contain the objective, goal of the program, all the requirements and a step by step instructions on procedure for the activity.

2. Activity Aid: Reference resource for the activity.

It will contain related resources such as PPTs, videos, scripts, audio, pictures, etc., as reference material for the school.

NCF-SE 2023 Guidelines for Campus Domain

The aim/vision of education guides the school curriculum. The National Curriculum Framework School Education, 2023 (NCF SE 2023) Chapter 1, Section 1.2  mentions that school education must develop in students appropriate values, dispositions, capacities, and knowledge required to achieve the aim/vision of education.
Part D of the NCF-SE has two chapters ‘School Culture’ and ‘School Processes’ dedicated to enabling the school culture and its manifestation in the day-to-day processes. (Pg 513 to 545)

Page 45 of the NCF-SE mentions that the school curriculum consists of all the deliberate and organized arrangements, mechanisms, processes, and resources in a school (of any kind) intended to help achieve the Aims of Education. These include the subjects taught, the pedagogical and classroom practices, books and other Teaching-Learning Materials (TLMs), examinations and other methods of assessment, and school culture and processes.

Pg 515(Part D Chapter 1 - School Culture) of the NCF-SE  states that in addition to having a positive impact on learning, school culture is one of the biggest influences on the development of values and dispositions amongst students, which are important Curricular Goals. 

Pg 516 (Section 1.1 of Chapter 1 - School Culture) of the NCF-SE states that school culture has two aspects. The first is values, norms, and beliefs — which form the school culture; and the second is behaviours, relationships, and practices — in which the culture is manifested and experienced.