HOW NEP 2020 WILL REVAMP OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM
Education is fundamental for achieving full human potential, developing an equitable and just society, and promoting national development.
National Education Policy 2020 is the first education policy of the 21st century that intends to address many growing developmental constraints of our country. It proposes the revision and revamping of all aspects of the education structure, including its regulation and governance, to create a new system that is attuned with the goals of 21st century education, while building upon Indias traditions and value systems.
It sets special emphasis on the development of the creative potential of each individual. It is based on the principle that education must develop not only the cognitive capacities, such as critical thinking and problem solving – but also social, ethical, and emotional capacities and dispositions.
It is going to help re-establish teachers, as the most respected and essential members of our society, because they truly shape our next generation of citizens. It will empower teachers and help them to do their job as effectively as possible. It will also help recruit the very best and brightest to enter the teaching profession at all levels, by ensuring livelihood, respect, dignity, and autonomy, while also instilling in the system basic methods of quality control and accountability.
It will provide to all students, irrespective of their place of residence, a quality education system, with particular focus on historically marginalized, disadvantaged, and underrepresented groups.
Education is a great leveler and is the best tool for achieving economic and social mobility, inclusion, and equality. It is going to ensure that all students from such groups, despite inherent obstacles, are provided various targeted opportunities to enter and excel in the educational system.
Finally, I would like to conclude by adding that NEP 2020 is a milestone in the history of the education system in India. It will provide the much-needed tectonic shift in the pedagogical structure emphasizing experiential and practical learning that will instill 21st-century skills in our children and teachers to adapt and update themselves with the ongoing changes in the society.
Karuna Verma, Principal, Sam International School, Dwarka.