EDUCATION AT THE CROSSROADS

Language: English
Pages: 246


About the Book

The volume asks a fundamental question: What is education? While there can be no one answer, the contributors provide a clear understanding of the current state of education in India, which stands at a crossroads. .

Education is a fundamental right for the empowerment of every citizen, and the holistic development of the Human personality. It is not only about literacy and grades, nor merely about knowledge creation. A common theme that runs through the papers in the recognition the education has to teach us to think and question. If this is the imperative, education must take cognisance of disparities in incomes and socials status, the heterogeneity of culture, religion, language and lived reality. .

Most importantly, however, is the crucial need for value education, as brought out in the Foreword. The 20th century has been major development in science and technology, for instance. On the other hand, it is the movement for us to draw on our rich heritage and promote intercultural education. .

This volume is essential reading for those in the field of education, of course, but also public policy and the non-government sector.


About the Author


Apoorvanand is Professor of Hindi, University of Delhi. He is part of the core group that designed the National Curriculum Framework for school Education in 2005; member of national focus group of teaching of Indian Language (NCERT); and on the Committee to advise on Renovation and Rejuvenation of Higher Education in India, 2008. He currently edits Alochana a quarterly journal of criticism.

Omita Goyal is presently Chief Editor of the IIC Quarterly, the Journal of the India International Center. Prior to this she worked at