Mohan Bhagwat to release education curriculum based on Indian values
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Vijay Kumar
Sep 9, 2017, 7:05:48 AM9/9/17
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NEW DELHI: RSS Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat is set to release an alternative curriculum for school education in the capital on Saturday. It comes in the backdrop of the Centre carrying out consultations to frame the National Education Policy (NEP), which is set to be unveiled by the year end.
Prepared by an Ahmedabad-based think tank called Punarutthan Vidyapeeth, the curriculum is compiled in a five-volume series and meant to promote ‘Indian model’ of school education. According to Vidyapeeth chancellor Indumati Katdare, the curriculum is based on ‘Indian values’ and education systems as documented in the Upanishads and tracts of the eighteenth century. The curriculum, as explained by Katdare essentially centres around a syllabus based on Vedic education, family values and moral values.
The curriculum also includes a syllabus for parents on how to raise their children until the age of five. While Bhagwat had presided over a two-day seminar over deliberations on reviving 'Indianness' within the education system held by the Vidyapeeth in Nagpur in December 2014, the think tank had also conducted a survey on the current education system and how it ‘lacks Indian values’ among schools in Ahmedabad in 2015. “We have lost our own tracts of knowledge and values since the British colonised India. This (curriculum) is an attempt to initiate ourselves back into the old system,” she said.
Apart from defining the Indian model of education, the five volume series also deals with ‘westernisation’ of Indian education and stresses on the need for imparting education in Hindi or mother tongue. The last volume deals with globalisation and how India has the ability to resolve the world’s problems through its ‘indigenous model of education’.
“Our current textbooks do not highlight our achievements in science and other fields before the western forces destroyed our education and social systems. The curriculum is an attempt to revive our lost heritage,” she said adding that the organisation has not formally sent any suggestions to the centre on NEP..
While the curriculum has been published in Hindi, the volumes released by Bhagwat will be kept at the Saraswati temple in Basar. “This (the alternative curriculum) is a mere revival of our ancient heritage and knowledge, so the first edition of the series will be housed at the temple,” said Vasudev Prajapati, a member of the Vidyapeeth.
Mohan Bhagwat to release education curriculum based on Indian values
Aanchal Bansal | ET Bureau | Sep 9, 2017, 10:27 ISTNEW DELHI: RSS Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat is set to release an alternative curriculum for school education in the capital on Saturday. It comes in the backdrop of the Centre carrying out consultations to frame the National Education Policy (NEP), which is set to be unveiled by the year end.
Prepared by an Ahmedabad-based think tank called Punarutthan Vidyapeeth, the curriculum is compiled in a five-volume series and meant to promote ‘Indian model’ of school education. According to Vidyapeeth chancellor Indumati Katdare, the curriculum is based on ‘Indian values’ and education systems as documented in the Upanishads and tracts of the eighteenth century. The curriculum, as explained by Katdare essentially centres around a syllabus based on Vedic education, family values and moral values.
The curriculum also includes a syllabus for parents on how to raise their children until the age of five. While Bhagwat had presided over a two-day seminar over deliberations on reviving 'Indianness' within the education system held by the Vidyapeeth in Nagpur in December 2014, the think tank had also conducted a survey on the current education system and how it ‘lacks Indian values’ among schools in Ahmedabad in 2015. “We have lost our own tracts of knowledge and values since the British colonised India. This (curriculum) is an attempt to initiate ourselves back into the old system,” she said.
Apart from defining the Indian model of education, the five volume series also deals with ‘westernisation’ of Indian education and stresses on the need for imparting education in Hindi or mother tongue. The last volume deals with globalisation and how India has the ability to resolve the world’s problems through its ‘indigenous model of education’.
“Our current textbooks do not highlight our achievements in science and other fields before the western forces destroyed our education and social systems. The curriculum is an attempt to revive our lost heritage,” she said adding that the organisation has not formally sent any suggestions to the centre on NEP..
While the curriculum has been published in Hindi, the volumes released by Bhagwat will be kept at the Saraswati temple in Basar. “This (the alternative curriculum) is a mere revival of our ancient heritage and knowledge, so the first edition of the series will be housed at the temple,” said Vasudev Prajapati, a member of the Vidyapeeth.
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