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Option 3 : (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
Education Policy lays particular emphasis on the development of the creative potential of each individual. It is based on the principle that education must develop not only cognitive capacities - both the ‘foundational capacities ’of literacy and numeracy and ‘higher-order’ cognitive capacities, such as critical thinking and problem solving – but also social, ethical, and emotional capacities and dispositions.
National Education Policy 2020-
According to NEP 2020, A good educational institution is one in which every student feels welcomed and cared for, where a safe and stimulating learning environment exists, where a wide range of learning experiences are offered, and where good physical infrastructure and appropriate resources conducive to learning are available to all students.
Some important fundamental principles of the NEP 2020 are-
- Full equity and inclusion as the cornerstone of all educational decisions to ensure that all students are able to thrive in the education system.
- It includes the overall development of the leader, it covers all three aspects as Cognitive domain, affective domain, and psychomotor domain.
- Emphasis on conceptual understanding rather than rote learning and learning-for-exams.
- Promoting self-assessment and the peer assessment done by the student in the classroom.
- Reduction in curriculum content and learning should be done by direct involvement in the activities of the learners.
- Respect for diversity and respect for the local context in all curriculum, pedagogy, and policy, always keeping in mind that education is a concurrent subject.
- Learning is conceptual which is given by involving the students in experiments, and hands-on activities related to the concept.
- Establishment of the linkage of the concepts with the environment or we can say that the linkage of the school with the home.
- Promoting multilingualism and the power of language in teaching and learning.
- It emphasizes group work as well as individual work, NEP 2020 links the study to the curriculum.
- Thus we can consider that holistic development, experimental learning, reduction in curriculum content, and multilingualism are the main features of the NEP 2020.