Position Paper on National Focus Group: Aims of Education

K.N. Nair, Mrinalini Miri, Jayshree Mathur, Sharada Jain, Sebak Tripathy, C. Seshadri, Gurveen Kaur, Satya P. Gautam and Roop Rekha Verma

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Abstract: For a fairly long time now, we have been engaged in the great task of educating the children of India, an independent nation with a rich variegated history, extraordinarily complex cultural diversity, and commitment to democratic values and general well-being. Given the enormity and importance of this task, it is necessary to create occasions to sit back collectively and ask ourselves, ‘What are we doing in our engagement with this task? Is there a need to ask ourselves afresh some of the basic questions such as what ought to be the purpose of education?’ This paper addresses these and other issues.

Keywords: education; pedagogy; school; pre-school learning; language; environment; knowledge; Education; Sociology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-09
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