OPEN AND CLOSED PLANNING: TRAINING
OPEN AND CLOSED PLANNING
The success of planning depends on the proper analysis of problems associated with the planning of training measures and the competence of persons involved. Even in the case of selection of content - an offshoot of planning-mistakes can be made, if wrong people are involved in the planning. The development of curricula is regarded as the job of group of experts, and theri followed throughout the nation with the approval of the National Council. This type of planning is known as closed and remote from practice. (Nolker - 1980). This is termed closed, because the curricula cannot be altered without the approval of the National Council, and the detailed plans are worked out to the finest detail and implemented with official authority. Though the procedure has advantages, it has its own disadvantages too. If people who are to carry out decisions are not involved in working out the plan, there is enough evidence from research findings, to show that such plans meet with resistance in practice aim they can scarcely be implemented. The rigidity of the plan also leads to uncontrolled deviations. If they are pressed into operation, they are followed for official occasions such as inspections and attendance by the instructor or trainee-instructors. By and large, instructors carry on with the daily routine, with their own age old notes and preparations.
Recent research findings from the West including U.K., U.S., and Germany show that open and realistic teaching plans produce far better results than the plans which are closed and remote from practice. In this, open implies that teaching plans are not conceived of as training guidelines which are mandatory and worked out to the last fine detail. Instead, they present a frame work containing the essential minimum of content but allow sufficient scope for adaptation to individual needs, regional conditions, technological change, etc. An open planning procedure is one in which the practitioners-people who are to implement the curricula-participate. The experience of those who are in the field, namely the instructors and technical administrators is taken in turn. The open plans are more participatory and adaptation will be within controlled limits, and the plans do not become rapidly outdated. Closed teaching plans often fail to achieve their intention. The desire to make firm and unalterable rule mandatory in training is not fulfilled. Everyone with experience of the classroom knows how many opportunities there are of circumventing unpopular guidelines. An instructor-proof curriculum is yet to be developed.
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