Learning Without Burden: Where Are We a Quarter Century After the Yash Pal Committee Report

ISBN-13: 9780367487096 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 484 str.

Mythili Ramchand; Ritesh Khunyakari; Arindam Bose

Opis

This book looks at education reforms, planning and policy through an exploration of the Yash Pal Committee Report (1993) in India, which made recommendations to improve the quality of learning while reducing cognitive burden on students.

Spis treści

Foreword, 1. Unpacking the construct of burden, Part 1: Systemic Perspective, 2. Policy perspectives on learning without burden, 3. Initial Teacher Education: Possibilities and Limits of Curriculum Reform, 4. Reforms in curriculum and textbooks: Challenges and Possibilities, 5. From the tall tower to a lush garden, 6. Assessment and learning in Indian context: Compelling association, invariance or an educational folly?, 7. Learning without burden in the era of connected computers, 8. Education of children with diverse learning needs, 9. The demands of ethical learning and character development in our changing times, Part 2: Perspectives from Domains, 10. Learning in the arts and aesthetic development, 11. Growing into literacy: Part 1: The Building Blocks of Literacy, 12. Growing into literacy: Part 2: The Devanagari and Telugu Scripts: Tools to Lighten the Burden of Learning Literacy, 13. Understand language to acquire it: The burden is incomprehensibility, 14. The unfinished agenda of mathematics curriculum reform, 15. Strengthening learning through visuospatial experiences: Initiatives from the Indian Context, Part 3: Looking back to look forward, 16. Reflections on the Process and Impact of the Learning without Burden Report: Key Take-aways from the Interviews of Two Members of the National Advisory Committee, Epilogue