Sunday, August 5, 2012

Can the Indian Education be called a mimicry?In India, I see that most of the students are compeled to take a subject without their interest.That...

I think that a couple of point need to be stressed here. 
The first is that part of the "mimicry" that is perceived comes down to the manner of
assessment.  If higher education students are going to be assessed through high stakes
standardized assessment, and the score on this drives their options for post- graduate
life, mimicry might be the best approach to safeguard their futures.  We hear of many
situations where student's do not fare well on such assessments and end up resorting to
drastic measures as a result.  If the educational system is motivated by high stakes
testing, I would question any other approach but mimicry because, evidently, success on
tests are all that matter.  The larger issue that might result from this is that there
needs to be a reconfiguration of how teaching and learning are structured in higher
education settings.  Being able to teach a subject through in depth analysis and
allowing students to find their voice in that discipline should be the focus of
instruction in these settings.  Yet, if the looming presence of standardized testing is
not placed in an appropriate and proportionate context, instruction will not be
altered.

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