Course-5 Understanding Disciplines and School Subjects pmd

1.3.4. Let us Summarise
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School is a social institution established with a social purpose of imparting
education to people. It is an important means to achieve the aims of education
of a country.
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Aims of education are not fixed and universal.
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As the political, social and economic conditions change and new problems
arise, it becomes necessary to re-examine carefully and re-state clearly the
objectives which education at definite stage should keep in view.
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The aims of education all over the world in general are  the same. It is to help
the citizens as well as the country to grow in a positive direction. But the specific
aims of education of each country will emerge based on its philosophical,
sociological, technological and many other situations. These aspects determine
the aims of education of a nation, and hence the aims of schooling of that place
also.
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‘Learning: The Treasure Within’, the International Commission on Education
for the Twenty-first Century chaired by Jacques Delores, suggested four types
of learning: Learning to know, Learning to do, Learning to live together and
Learning to be. schools are expected to be instrumental in achieving these and
hence form the aims of schooling.
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The aims of schooling in India can be derived by different documents of different
times and also in different contexts.
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They are the constitution of India document, NPE 1986, NCF 2005 and the
context of Globalization and the draft of National Education Policy 2019. Each
suggests some common and some context specific aims for schooling.