Course-5 Understanding Disciplines and School Subjects pmd

Aims of Schooling as deducted from Draft National Education Policy 2019:
The draft National Education Policy 2019 has clearly presented the vison of education
in India in its preamble. Accordingly, it is to ensure that it touches the live of each and
every citizen, consistent with their ability to contribute to many growing developmental
imperatives of this country on the one hand, and towards creating a just and equitable
society on the other.
It also mandates to have broad view of education encompassing the holistic
development of students with special emphasis on the development of the creative potential
of each individual, in all its richness and complexity, as suggested in  many reports from
UNESCO, the OECD, the World Bank, the World Economic Forum. The draft documents
also highlights the aims of schooling as the development of  not only cognitive skills - both
‘foundational skills’ of literacy and numeracy and ‘higher-order’ cognitive skills such as
critical thinking and problem solving skills - but also social and emotional skills, also
referred to as ‘soft skills’, including cultural awareness and empathy, perseverance and
grit, teamwork and leadership, among others. The Policy recognises that it is important to
conceive education in a more encompassing fashion, and this principle should inform and
guide reforms in relation to the reorientation of the contents and processes of education.
According to the policy, culturally, India has been, and continues to be, a cradle of
great diversity in all walks of life, with its myriad languages and dialects, with as many as
seven classical dance forms and two classical music forms, many well-developed traditions
of folk arts and music, pottery, sculptures and bronzes, exquisite architecture, incredible
cuisines, fabulous textiles of all kinds, and so much more. These rich legacies to world
heritage must not only be nurtured and preserved for posterity, but also enhanced and put to
new uses through our education system.