{"id":210985,"date":"2022-10-18T20:48:29","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T15:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=210985"},"modified":"2022-10-18T20:48:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T15:18:29","slug":"why-andhras-face-recognition-system-for-teacher-attendance-wont-reform-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/why-andhras-face-recognition-system-for-teacher-attendance-wont-reform-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Andhra\u2019s face recognition system for teacher attendance won\u2019t reform education"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>&#8211; The post is based on the article <strong>\u201cWhy Andhra\u2019s face recognition system for teacher attendance won\u2019t reform education\u201d <\/strong>published in <strong>The Indian Express <\/strong>on <strong>18th October 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus: <\/strong>GS2- Issue related to development and management of education<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance<\/strong>&#8211; Issues related to teachers<\/p>\n<p><strong>News-<\/strong> The article explains the issues related to the face recognition attendance system that has been put in place in schools in Andhra Pradesh.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is the logic behind this move?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>This policy change is aimed at raising the quality of education and improving the learning experiences of students.<\/p>\n<p>The assumption is that the mere presence of teachers in a school is enough for the students to acquire these abilities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are\u00a0 the issues related to this system? <\/strong>Teacher absenteeism got recognised as a systemic issue almost four decades ago and became a policy goal soon after that. The policies framed to ensure this have an i<strong>nspectorial character rather than a reformatory one<\/strong>. It focuses on <strong>surveillance mechanisms<\/strong>. It has not yielded results. The app based system is part of that solution.<\/p>\n<p>A teacher who has to be\u00a0 offered incentives to download an app is expected to build intellectual abilities and make learning inquiry-driven. How marking a teacher\u2019s face on an app will lead to the development of intellectual abilities in students remains a puzzle.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is the way forward?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Issues related to teacher absenteeism require a humanist understanding of teachers as professionals, their predicaments and needs.<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance mechanism fails to understand that teaching is fundamentally a social interaction. It is about students and teachers putting their minds together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source&#8211; The post is based on the article \u201cWhy Andhra\u2019s face recognition system for teacher attendance won\u2019t reform education\u201d published in The Indian Express on 18th October 2022. Syllabus: GS2- Issue related to development and management of education Relevance&#8211; Issues related to teachers News- The article explains the issues related to the face recognition attendance&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/why-andhras-face-recognition-system-for-teacher-attendance-wont-reform-education\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Andhra\u2019s face recognition system for teacher attendance won\u2019t reform education<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10500],"class_list":["post-210985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}