Abstract
Purpose: Adult Education Program is an imperative platform to spread literacy, raising awareness, functional amenabilities and sensitize each member of the community irrespective of age, region and religion. National Adult Education Program (NAEP) was initiated on 2nd October, 1978 to spread literacy among community belonging to the age groups 15-35 years. However, with emergence of various implementing challenges and demands of the community, Adult Education was transfigured to Lifelong learning to engulf people of all age groups and all regions with special emphasis on socially and economically deprived sections of the community. Design/ Methodology/ Approach: Present review highlights the role of New Education Policy (NEP) 2020 in proliferating adult education and lifelong learning programs in the current digital world. The emergence of Digital India and Atma Nirbhar Bharat makes it indispensable for each member of the community to be well aware of the basic skills that are imperative to be an independent and useful member of the society. To address the unforeseen challenges observed in India’s education landscape after COVID-19 pandemic scenario, it become inevitable to sensitize each member of the community with updated knowledge and skills. Findings/Result: As explained by Maclver who was a member of American Sociological Society, has explained the concept of society as a web of social relations. Current scenario has made it imperative to realize the significance of Adult education and lifelong learning. The author suggested that Adult Education and Lifelong Learning is a web of Skill Development Program. In current digital India and Atma Nirbhar Bharat, where technology advancements has emerged on a significant height, Adult Education and Life Long Learning plays a vital role in making the society economically independent. Originality/New knowledge: The novelty in current review and NEP 2020 lies in transition from National Education Policy 1986 aiming at spreading functional literacy among community to NEP 2020 aiming at enhancing skill development and dissemination of skill development programs among community to make them economically independent and a useful member in the society. Paper type: Review Article
Highlights
The sudden overdependence on technology with emergence of Digital India has brought with it various bottle necks that need to be overcome to have equity among all members of the society [1]
National Adult Education Programme (NAEP) was conceived in India during the fifth phase of Concept of Developmental Literacy aiming to contribute towards liberation and overall development of each community member
OF DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS : The data collection and key features related to Adult education and lifelong learning approaches and policies were taken from the reported literature in the research papers and policy reviews
Summary
The sudden overdependence on technology with emergence of Digital India has brought with it various bottle necks that need to be overcome to have equity among all members of the society [1]. Functional literacy integrates literacy with the occupation of the learner and beginning of implementing this project started with Farmers Training and Functional Literacy Project (FTFLP) This was done to integrate a clientele in proliferation of agriculture research and development (R&D) by sensitizing farmers about the various agrochemical products, identify labels of fertilizers, amenability to read popular useful agriculture articles and magazines. The Program of Action (1992) states that the accentuation in adult education program should be on skill development, awareness generation among the learners of national objectives, liberation from oppression and other development activities This implies that social development, but it aimed to create awareness among people about various policies, law, rights and duties of the government and people for successive implementation of the strategy of redistributive justice. Various impediments arising due to online banking and transactions frauds and deplorable activities makes it indispensable to spread awareness, literacy and basic skills to each member of a society [5,6,7]
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