Confluence Article Series on Draft National Education Policy 2019
Links to the various articles on DNEP on Confluence.
Month: July 2019
Some Comments on DNEP-19
Dr Amitava Datta casts a critical look at some of the general features of the DNEP as well as how it is going to affect the school and the college / university education.
Teacher preparation and professional development in draft NEP (India) 2019
Sushama Yermal examines the DNEP in the context of Teacher Education and Training.
Primary education in the DNEP: What is in store for our children?
There are a number of fantastic adjectives and phrases about activity-based fun pedagogy across the stages, about bi-lingual transaction, about higher order thinking, analytical skills, physical wellbeing, and about formative assessment. What do all these add up to?
4 Things Need To Urgently Fix In India's Education System
We did not really need a policy document; what we need is an action document on strategy and implementation, one that identifies the few most significant issues and then details how these can be tackled.
Draft Education Policy leaves a lot to be desired
An overview of some of the possible lacunae of the Draft National Education Policy.
The Ayurvedic Dosha Theory : A Deconstruction
A rough-and-ready model like the dosha theory is basically the result of reasoning intuitively – of using rules of thumb to simplify problems for the sake of efficiency. It relies on commonsensical shortcuts that have arisen as handy ways to solve complex cognitive problems rapidly, but at a cost of inaccuracies and misfires.
Technology in the DNEP and science education
R Ramanujam examines the NEP in the context of the role of Internet and Communication Technology in education and argues that one needs to be mindful of what exactly is desired before embracing technology wholesale in science education.
The draft NEP and the Question of Finances
The Draft National Education Policy is an ambitious document that aims to bring in wide-spread reforms in the field of education and research. But do we have enough money to realize these goals? Sukanya Bose and Arvind Sardana examine this question.