Ask
school students to sing a refrain from any popular film song and they will sing
it without missing a beat. But they might stumble in reciting even a verse of
William Wordsworth’s ‘Daffodils’ off the cuff. The reason? According to the
education department, this is because film songs are tuned, making it easy to
remember the lyrics.
Taking
their cue from this, the state education department has recently embarked on a
unique initiative to set tunes to the poetry in the state board syllabus so
that students will remember them just as easily.
The
initiative is the brain child of acting deputy director of education BB Chavan.
The
department has roped in famous singers and music directors to record and lend
music to the poems.
Copies
of these poems will be distributed in all state board schools. The first CD
consisting of nine poems from the Class 5 Balbharti textbook (Marathi medium)
will be released on October 20 at Raje Shivaji Vidyalaya, Dadar.
All
the poems in Class 5, state- board syllabus were recorded by professionals over
the past couple of months as a pilot for the initiative.
Poems
in other languages and classes will also be recorded soon.
“We
decided to begin with Class 5 as their syllabus has been recently revamped,”
said Chavan. “We will do the same for other classes phase-wise. The idea is to
breathe life into school-level poetry so that stuOctober 20 at Raje Shivaji
Vidyalaya, Dadar Similarly, poems and songs will be recorded from textbooks of
other classes languages in a phased manner Some of the poems that have been
recorded include the Hindi poem ‘An Ode to Books’ by Safdar Hashmi, ‘Mai
Marathi’ by Sanjeevani Marathe, ‘Vaasru’ by Anil and ‘San Ek Din’ by Yashwant,
which are included in the textbook. dents do not find them drab and boring.”
Some
of t he poems t hat have been recorded include the Hindi poem ‘ An Ode to
Books’ by Safdar Hashmi, ‘Mai Marathi’ by Sanjeevani Marathe, ‘Vaasru’ by Anil
and ‘ San Ek Din’ by Yashwant, which are i ncluded in t he textbook.
“All
the artists have worked on this without seeking any remuneration for the
benefit of the students,” said Sambhaji Bhagat, one of the singers.
Source |
Hindustan Times | 14 October 2015
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