Rabindranath Tagore’s idea of education act as a model for India’s post pandemic education policy. Explain (200 Words)
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KEY POINTS
· Stratification within disciplines and languages a pervasive and intrinsic part of the Indian Education System has been rightly addressed by the National Education Policy.
· One of the fundamental goals that has been enshrined as a guiding principle in the NEP is to have no hard separations between arts and sciences, between vocational and academic streams, etc.
· The policy is silent on the ethics of global cosmopolitanism, internationalism and universal human rights values.
· This seamless flow into a comparative study of various national geographies has not been mentioned in NEP 2020.
· Tagore wanted to assert India’s right to be independent without denying the importance of what India could learn freely and profitably from abroad.
· He was afraid that a rejection of the West in favour of an indigenous Indian tradition was not only limiting in itself.
· The absence of a comparative international analysis from the curriculum and pedagogy is an error that India’s education cannot afford.
· For example, India has a lot to learn from New Zealand, which is making tremendous progress in human development under the leadership of Jacinda Ardern and Scandinavian countries which have long held the highest ranks in the UNDP Human Development Index.
· While NEP 2020 repetitively highlights the goals of holistic and inclusive education, it paradoxically makes it clear that the local context will gain preponderance over other aspects as the foundational ethos of the education policy.
