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Sunday, July 18, 2010

Population Education


"Population Education is an educational programme which helps in developing awareness and understanding of population situation as well as a rationale attitude and behavior toward those situations for the attainment of quality of life of the individual, the family, and the community, the nation and the world". From this definition it is clear that population education process which gives knowledge about how to live a prosperous life in a family, Community, country. Similarly, it provides knowledge about the effects of population growth through one solid programme. Besides, it helps individual and a country to take rational and responsible decisions concerning population related matters.
Education plays a vital role to bring changes in a country. IF population education is offered at the school level, it will be a great help in controlling the growth of population. For this, it is necessary to know "what is population education?" People do not have same type of concepts about population education. Some take it as another name of family planning because population education deals with the family planning and contraceptive for family planning. But the nature and objectives of population education is entirely different from family planning. Besides, there are some people, who think it as sex education because it contains subjects of human sexuality, birth, sex and sexual behavior etc. In the same way, some people define this as demography because it contains components. Process and measures of mathematical and statistical studies of population.

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