Even in an age of digital learning, the purpose of education still stands perennially valid, as that of bringing to fruition all the potential that is there within a human being.
With knowledge superhighways dotting and defining the terrain of education today, an attitude of inquiry, research, and questioning are key to a student’s engagement in the learning process. Prof. J Bronowski, the author of ‘Ascent of Man’ very pertinently states, “It is important that students bring a certain irreverence to their studies: they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it”
As an international school, NISV strives to inculcate the same ethos of inquiry to reinforce learning. At the same time its policies and programmes find an echo in the philosophy of J. Krishnamurthy which considers a school as “a place where one learns about the totality, the wholeness of life. Academic excellence is absolutely necessary, but a school includes much more than that. It is a place where both the teacher and the student explore, not only the outer world, the world of knowledge, but also their own thinking, their own behavior.”
The National Education Policy 2020 inter alia focuses on connecting knowledge to life outside the school, ensuring that learning shifts away from rote methods, enriching curriculum so that it goes beyond textbooks, building commitment to democratic values of equality, justice, freedom, concern for others’ wellbeing, secularism and respect for human dignity and rights. Learning and Knowledge focuses on children as active learners with primacy given to children’s experiences, their voices and their participation in the construction of knowledge. The NISV learning systems and programmes, pedagogical approaches and methodologies are mirrored in the National Education Policy 2020 by laying stress on knowledge issues, concepts, attitudes, skills and action for future.
A universality, a global perspective, and an international mindedness pervade systems of education practiced across the world; a microcosm of that world is Navrachana International School, Vadodara.
Let us script together our own unique journey of learning through the portals of NISV.
Theophane D’Souza
Principal