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IJE&R : NEW FRONTIERS IN EDUCATION : Vol 54 No. 4, October-December 2021

IJE&R : NEW FRONTIERS IN EDUCATION : Vol 54 No. 4, October-December 2021

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  • 2021
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  • Vol 54 No. 4

Editorial

RELEVANCE OF EDUCATION IN TODAY’S WORLD
Dr. Fr. Saju.P.T*

Education is the Intergenerational transmission of values and knowledge through the formal and informal means. Aim of real education is both cognitive as well as emotional. It seeks holistic development of persons better equipped to perceive, understand and deal with the complex realities of humanities and societies and to participate in the process of making honest individuals and healthier society. Aristotle says, ‘Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all; knowledge can give intellectual ethics not conduct’. Educating only mind means we are able to develop only cognition. Educating only heart means intellectual ethics are developing in your character and conduct. It further signifies the development empathy, compassion, respect for diversity, human dignity and the law of the land that would entail learning about and appreciating the wisdom of philosophy, ethics, morality, societal values, and the beauty of art, literature, poetry and music. Developing only cognition will lead to making human robots, and not human beings.

Education gives human a sense of rationality, truthfulness, empathy and honesty. However, it requires the consonance of both mind and heart. For instance, a person, having knowledge of the importance of helping people with accident, ignores them and passes by, it is an example of holding education only in mind; and the one who helps them with medical aid is a person with true education in heart. Present educational system has been mostly reduced to just learning of predefined facts. The ideal values are generally absent in an educated individual, which has manifested itself in the form of hate crimes, terrorism and crimes against humanity. Quality education system shall do away with the utilitarian approach where only aim of education is to get jobs. It must strive to secure the true education to an individual where he/she can proudly claim that he/she is educated both at his/her mind and heart.

Since the time of Vedic age, we discover different ways of imparting education. Pupils used to learn various scriptures, rituals and archery.  Moral education was provided along with formal teachings. Sense of empathy and compassion was imparted and ingrained in the formative years of children. Children could understand the importance of helping others

and respecting elders. After Vedic age, different forms of education were given in gurukul and formal universities such as Nalanda, Taxila, Vikramshila. These ages witnessed the intermingling of various cultures in Indian subcontinent. Besides learning new discoveries, sciences and art forms, students also understood tolerance and cultivated respect towards different faiths, cultures and states.

In the present modern era, the ways of teaching have immensely evolved as the pace of advancement in science and technology have increased manifold. Still the art of educating the mind is of prime importance. Moreover, purity of heart, tolerance of other people, compassion for poor and world-peace are of utmost importance in education.

Education must emphasise on social skills, compassion and kindness. Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and other towering personalities made a place in the hearts of people, not merely due to their intellect but because of their humanism and their ability to connect with the people. An education without heart is catastrophic. Once a German holocaust survivor had said, “educate your students so that they must have heart because I had seen persons with brain but no heart. Doctors and engineers helping Nazis”.

Education in mind and not in heart, is the reason which has aggravated the problems of poverty, unemployment and communal riots. The world today manifests a deep crisis in human family and catastrophic ecological imbalance in our planet. Consumeristic mentality and unlimited greed of people treat planet Earth as a garbage dump. Multinational companies, small scale business centres and even poor farmers produce and sell products insensitive to the health and wellbeing of people. Unsurprisingly, even some of the educated and informed minds indulge in some of the crimes against humanity and ecosystem.

An education which only gives knowledge creates zombies without heart and values. It is the brain which created Atom bomb but it is the education with heart that led to the discovery of antibiotics. Swami Vivekananda emphasised on an education which builds character of the man, not just fills its brain with bookish knowledge, because it is the education which shapes the attitude, behaviour and morality of humans.  Hence, there is a need for educating our upcoming generation with heart, for sustaining humanity in society with love, compassion and empathy.

The articles in this book explains the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on students of higher education and the resilience to surmount various difficulties that emerged. It further describes the possibility to improve educational standard by various methods including modern technology and the subsequent positive influence on individuals and society.

Lockdown and online learning: educational inequalities magnified describes critical insights on experiences of educational inequalities during the pandemic, especially by students of socially marginalized and economically vulnerable communities in rural contexts. The paper on Covid-19:

Impact on Higher Education in Indian Education setup, provides an overview of impact of Covid-19 on higher education in India and discuss Post Covid-19 Trends of Higher Education. Finding peace in the pandemic period, examines the influence of the covid-19 pandemic on stress levels especially in students and professionals and on the resiliency to tackle the challenges. The paper, Building  Agile Teams in the Post Pandemic World, provides an insight into how building agile team could be envisioned and realized in a business world.

Opinion of stakeholders on two-year B. Ed. program study presents a detailed analysis of opinion of stakeholders on different concerns of teacher education and identifies suggestions for its better functioning.Do prospective teachers have social responsibility? A descriptive study, determines the level of social responsibility among future teachers.A study on impact assessment of life frontier engagement (LiFE) at Lady Doak College is an appraisal of the effective and significant changes brought about by LiFE in the holistic development of the students

Highly cited papers on data science: the global perspective, attempts to highlight the growth and  development of data science literature and make the quantitative and qualitative assessment by analysing various features of research output and citation’s impact. In the Learning Science from home: Use of TPACK by Secondary School Children of Kerala, India, the TPCAK framework describes the kinds of knowledge that teachers need in order to teach with technology. Good teaching with technology requires a shift in existing pedagogical and content domains.

 

* Dr. Fr. Saju.P.T is currently serving as the Vice Principal (Arts and Humanities) of Salesian College Siliguri. He has been awarded his Ph.D. from the University of Kalyani (West Bengal). Dr. Fr. Saju.P.T is associated in the capacity of Director and/trainer as well as member with several government and non-government agencies pertaining to social service and child welfare in West Bengal.

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