Muktangan

 	
 Muktangan addresses disconnects in mainstream education, namely between:

 	
Teacher and school education
 	
Schools & community
 	
Child & curriculum and most fundamentally, between TEACHER & CHILD.


 	
The educational system assumes that all students are learning at one ‘age appropriate’ level & are hence taught & assessed accordingly. This leads to boredom on the part of the high performers & the dropping out of those labelled as failures.
 	
Teachers are expected to use an active pedagogy in the classroom whilst themselves being taught in teacher education largely through lectures. The processes of teacher and school education are not in congruence.
 	
Teachers are too closely supervised & hence not given the autonomy to work as professionals. This, in turn, leads to low teacher motivation.
 	
Interventions for change mainly focus on isolated components of a system & hence the improvements do not sustain as other components resist the changes.