A Critical Study on the Holistic and Multidisciplinary Approach of National Educational Policy 2020 (NEP 2020) in India

Abstract

National Education Policy: 2020 is ground-breaking step taken by Indian Government in the field of Education. We are living in the post modern virtual world where the boundary of the education of a country is kaput and enriched with the affluent global thoughts. Indian education has the greatest heritage and glorious past. It has been altering its form according to the passage of time on the demand of the crisis influenced by social, political and economical issues. The present study will focus on the holistic and multidisciplinary dimension of New Education Policy: 2020. The researcher will discuss how holistic attitude of education plays an important role in the field of ‘all round development’ of the child; and the researcher will find out how much multidisciplinary approach is relevant in contemporary education system in the respect of global education. The researcher has gone through the report of the previous education policies, committees and studied related literature closely which are desirable for this study. The findings of this study will help its readers to understand the context to introduce NEP 2020 by Government; the reader will realize the stream of the change of education policy, he/she will aware previous history of education in brief. The researcher has taken philosophical research method to convey philosophy of education and philosophy of life as well. The novelty of this study is to recognize the importance of the approach of holistic education in modern education system and curriculum. And then the readers will be able to distinguish how much multidisciplinary educational approach is significant for survival which is the ultimate aim of all education.