My response to The New Education Policy 2020:
1: Vision :is transforming India into a global knowledge superpower.
- Autonomous Learners : https://mmpant.com/coming-of-age-in-the-4th-industrial-age/
- Skills for 2020 and beyond: https://mmpant.com/weekend-learning/
- The Quantum Track : https://mmpant.com/quantuml/
2: The key overall thrust will be on learning how to learn – and away from the culture of rote learning as is present today.
- LH2L@Lunch : https://mmpant.com/lhtllunch/
3: Teachers shape the future of our children.
- SmartEducators : https://mmpant.com/smarteducators/
4: Equitable and Inclusive Education: Learning for All
- Mobile WhatsApp Learning : https://mmpant.com/learning-321/
5: Towards a More Holistic Education
- School for the 2nd half of life : https://mmpant.com/msai/
- Let’s Learn Together : https://mmpant.com/2020/08/28/lets-learn-together/
6: This policy has been formulated at a time when Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged. AI will be able to match or outperform – and therefore be a valuable aid to – even skilled professionals……
- AI fluent SmartEducator : https://mmpant.com/ai-fluent-smarteducator/
7: Increasing Gross Enrolment Ratio to 50 percent by 2030. This has implications for School education. During the last 4 or 2 years at School, the student must make the transition to a self-directed learner who can make choices and take responsibility for his/her learning.
- Autonomous Learners : https://mmpant.com/coming-of-age-in-the-4th-industrial-age/
8: A very important element of the future model of education is the role of parents. This is acknowledged in the initial part of the NEP2020 document.
“1.1. Over 85% of a child’s cumulative brain development occurs prior to the age of 6, indicating the critical importance of appropriate care and stimulation of the brain in a child’s early years for healthy brain development and growth.”
That is why I have often said that the home is the first school, the mother’s lap the first classroom and the mother is the most important and effective teacher.
An educated mother is therefore the best assurance of a child’s holistic development in the foundational years. As universal secondary education is achieved, almost all parents ( with appropriate online remote training modules) will be able to fulfil the learning needs of their own children at the school stage.
And when the GER of 50% is achieved, all parents will be able to build self-learning capabilities and life-long learning dispositions in their children. A desire to learn, and the mindset and capabilities to learn very well.
The paradigm of the Kothari education commission (1964) that ‘ the destiny of India is now being shaped in her classrooms’ would have changed to the new paradigm of ‘ the destiny of India is in the hands of its children, their teachers and parents’.
India would be ready for its rightful place in the comity of “knowledge economies”.
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My articles on related topics:
1: 10 Corollaries to the New Education Policy 2020: https://mmpant.com/2020/08/08/10-corollaries-to-the-new-education-policy-2020/
2: A paradigm shift in education : https://mmpant.com/2020/08/16/a-paradigm-shift-in-education/
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