Citizenship Education Programmes In School
Our school programme, DISHA, is practical, innovative and aligned to our national and state curricula. DISHA provide opportunities for curiosity, exploration and team work. It is designed to invigorate both the teachers and the students and invite critical thinking, application and a motivation to study civic responsibilities and citizenship education.
Democracy In Schools Having Action - DISHASchools that participate in Desh Apnayen's school program – DISHA (Democracy in Schools Having Action) have four major benefits:
Citizens have more authority than they realise in the functioning of a country. An ACTIZEN® (Alert, Informed and Active Citizen) does not only vote in elections but is also aware of the developments in between.
She has a say in the new developments and the affairs of the country. To train our generation of students in 21st century skills and to kindle the will to be more informed and active, Desh Apnayen has designed ACTIZEN® Education
In this new environment Teachers can inspire students into becoming ACTIZENS® by:
Desh Apnayen ACTIZEN® Club is an experiential Civics laboratory which encourages students to become ACTIZENS® by learning and experiencing 21st century skills.
To make participative democracy exciting, we created the two-phase, inter-school Actizen® contest for students between grades seven and nine.
The contest is designed to act as a catalyst that kickstarts imaginations on how to solve the big issues, and sparks community-level action to tackle these issues head on.
Student participation is the driving force behind the Actizen® contest, but the parents, teachers and school principals that support them are equally important.