Launching India's new SPACE Programme: (Sports & Performance Arts Certificate of Education)
TAKING INDIAN SPORT BACK TO THE FUTURE
- Create the holistic citizen and a healthy nation
- To create a talent base with depth - built from the grassroots - instead of adopting ‘band- aid’ solutions
- To ensure, sustain and increase Olympic medal winning performances by 2024
EDUCATION
- Restoring parity within the education system by prioritizing Sports and Performance Arts as valid career options.
- ·Incorporation of Sports and Performance Arts within the Right to Education, to create equal opportunity for all.
- Customising and localizing the curriculum to accommodate local communities and expertise, regional sports and culture.
- ·Encouraging healthy competition through teamwork, encourage national bonding thus attempting to address and reduce areas of societal friction and conflict
- Effective and efficient management of India’s human resources in sport and performance arts through training towards sporting excellence and professional career placements.
- Creating career opportunities for all including those that do not achieve international sporting standards through placements in careers in sciences / commerce/ humanities, associated with either sports or performance arts.
- Creating a career pyramid providing continuity through integration of the bottom of the training programme with institutions of higher learning e.g. IIT, IIM’s, medical and law schools etc., by inclusion of subject options with sport and performance arts in their programmes
GOVERNMENT-CORPORATE-COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP
- Networking Resources: Government and governmental agencies working in partnership with corporates and community agencies integrating infrastructure, Financial, Research and Personnel resources to create a “national ownership” of sports and performance arts training grid.
- Administration: Of Sports Persons, By Sports Persons, For the Indian citizen supported by representatives of government, corporate sector and technocratic expertise.
HERITAGE
- Resuscitate the heritage of traditional sports and performing arts in India, which have been marginalized and in decline – as a foundation and platform for Olympic excellence.
- Creating a training regimen organically grown out of traditional and indigenous expertise, in association with scientific research and technologies.
- Establishment of Kreeda Gurukulams : students working with a coach/ guru
HEALTHCARE
- Sports and Performance Arts to be considered as pre-emptive mental and physical healthcare, thus making all health care a positive intervention.
- Cultivation of emotional intelligence (EQ) through sports and the performance arts to ensure improved mental health of the nation presently obsessed with IQ.
SOCIAL
- Sports and Performance Arts as determinants of talent and ability, rising above and beyond the divisive criteria of community, caste, class and creed.
- Allocating food grain stocks to provide basic nutrition at the primary level, for children enrolled in training programmes; to serve as an incentive to joining and remaining in the programme.
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SYLLABUS: PRIMARY
·
Compulsory : Athletics, Gymnastics/Martial
Arts, Swimming and Cycling
·
Supplementary:
·
RURAL :
o
Language
o
Mathematics
o
Local Expertise
(Agriculture/Craft Making)
o
Performance Art: Folk or
Classical – Dance and or Music
URBAN
o
Language
o
Mathematics
o Sciences / Humanities
o
Performance Art: Folk or
Classical – Dance and or Music
SYLLABUS: SECONDARY
Children may be advised or may opt to pursue a more academically intensive stream at this juncture
·
Sports Stream:
o
Specialist Sport
o
Cross Training Sports
Discipline #1
o
Cross Training Sports
Discipline #2
o
Academic Options ( with sport/
performance arts content)
§ Science e.g. Sports
Technologies, Sports Medicine, Sports Nutrition etc.
§ Economics e.g. Sports Management
§ Humanities e.g.
Sports Psychology,
§ Commerce e.g.
Sports Goods and Product manufacture
·
Performance Arts:
o
Specialist Form:
§ Classical/Folk Dance
§ Regional Martial Art e.g.
Kalaripayattu, Silambam, Gatka, Thang Ta etc.
o
Gymnastics/Martial Arts
o
Yoga
o
Academic Options (with
Performance Arts content)
§ Science e.g. Arts
Technologies Development
§ Economics e.g. Performance Arts Management/ Product
Development
§ Humanities e.g.Performance Arts History
§ Commerce e.g. Performance
Arts Goods / Products
SYLLABUS: HIGHER SECONDARY
·
Sports Stream:
o
Specialist Sport
o
Academic Options ( with sport/
performance arts content)
§ Science e.g. Sports Technologies, Sports
Medicine, Sports Nutrition etc.
§ Economics e.g. Sports Management
§ Humanities e.g. Sports Psychology,
§ Commerce e.g.
Sports Goods and Product manufacture
·
Performance Arts Stream:
o
Specialist Form:
§ Classical/Folk Dance
§ Regional Martial Art e.g.
Kalaripayattu, Silambam, Gatka, Thang Ta etc.
o
Gymnastics/Martial Arts
o
Yoga
o
Academic Options (with
Performance Arts content)
§ Science e.g. Arts Technologies Development
§ Economics e.g. Performance Arts Management/ Product
Development
§ Humanities e.g. Performance Arts History
§ Commerce e.g. Performance
Arts Goods / Products
LIST OF SPORTS:
BASIC SPORTS: PRIMARY EDUCATION
- · Athletics
- · Swimming
- · Gymnastics
- · Martial Arts
- · Boxing
- · Archery
- · Wrestling
SPECIALIST SPORTS: SECONDARY/ HIGHER SECONDARY
- • Archery
- • Athletics / Track & Field
- • Badminton
- • Basketball
- • Boxing
- • Football
- • Gymnastics: (regional versions e.g. Kalaripayattu/ Malkhamb/ Gutka etc.)
- • Hockey
- • Martial Arts
- • Volleyball
- • Wrestling
- • Rock Climbing
- • Rowing
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