Teacher preparation and professional development in draft NEP (India) 2019
Sushama Yermal examines the DNEP in the context of Teacher Education and Training.
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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.
AYUSH advisory presents ominous outlook for research in traditional Indian health-care systems
Lakhotia, Patwardhan and Rastogi examine a recent advisory by the AYUSH ministry that mandates the inclusion of AYUSH experts in any study on AYUSH drugs.
Have we scientists failed our society?
As scientists, we need to recognize that communicating our research findings to the non-specialist, taking our science to the next-door neighbour or a vendor on the street or a politician, spreading the excitement of science among young people are our responsibilities as much as carrying out our research with sincerity and honesty is.
Capitalizing Genome: the Business of Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing in India
Shashank S Tiwari examines some of the ethical, social and regulatory issues linked to Direct To Consumer genetic tests in India.