Can this be a time for reflection for (modern) schooling that is ~200 years old in India?
This survey named " Will our children's education be affected?" provoked a certain line of thought on possibilities before educators in these interesting times. What have schools been doing all this while for the last 200 years, if they haven’t equipped children to own their learning? With humility I felt, the survey seems to be assuming a premise already - the worldview of industrial schooling that we all inhabit in our society. And from there all questions flow. I have challenged that premise and offered different perspectives. We need to ask right back upto Lord Macaulay whose well thought out colonial principles of domination still form the bed-rock of schooling of our children today. Can us educators, interpret this pause as a way to contemplate how has the education pursuit of our world / country doing? Source: Google Can this be seen as an opportunity to enable children and adults around them to Learn local From local material,...