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Why India’s Schools Should Why all educators should 1991 inflection point for Indian National Curriculum Framework
Reopen Right Now revisit J. Krishnamurti education? for School Education 2023:
With the lockdown of edu- As the country’s education This cover feature reports Comprehensive roadmap
cation institutions includ- institutions begin to regain that three decades after implementation challenge
ing schools and colleges post-pandemic momen- the watershed Union The National Curriculum
because of the Covid-19 tum in a fractious era of Budget of 1991 catalysed Framework for School
pandemic stretching to religious and communal liberalisation and deregu- Education (NCF-SE) 2023
56 weeks — the longest discord, government and lation of Indian industry, outlining ways and means
shutdown of education private educators would doubled post-indepen- to implement the National
institutions worldwide — do well to revisit the dence India’s annual rate Education Policy (NEP)
this cover story argued education philosophy and of economic growth which 2020 in the country’s 1.5
that the balance between teachings of extraordinary averaged 3.5 percent, million primary-secondary
children’s safety against sage-philosopher-educa- similar winds of change schools was presented
the pandemic and their tionist J. Krishnamurti. are gathering momen- to the nation in April.
right to education needs to Our cover feature sum- tum in India’s moribund In this cover story, we
be restored. It demanded marised JK’s education education sector mired in summarised the 628-page
that the Central and state philosophy, pedagogies dead habit, rote learning NCF-SE 2023, its imple-
governments waste no and best practices being and rock-bottom learning mentation challenges and
more time in restarting faithfully implemented outcomes. (EW February way forward, for the ben-
India’s long shuttered in the few Krishnamurti 2023) efit of teachers, parents
schools with adequate Foundation schools coun- and students. (EW August
safety protocols. (EW July trywide, and proposed that 2023)
2021) his education and art of
living philosophy has the
potential to stimulate a
renaissance of Indian edu-
cation. (EW June 2022)

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