‘Education turning into a breeding ground for hyper-nationalism’

Educational institutions are being transformed into centres for promotion of hyper-nationalism and corporate-driven vocational grooming nether the New Education Policy (NEP), Gandhian M.P. Mathai has said.

He was inaugurating the Education Protection Assembly organised jointly by the Thrissur Civil Society and the All India Save Education Committee astatine the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Auditorium present connected Tuesday.

The meeting, held with beardown demands to retreat NEP 2020 and revoke the PM SHRI statement signed by the Kerala government, saw crisp disapproval of what speakers described arsenic an ideology loaded with neuronationalism agenda.

“Utility unsocial drives these caller reforms. The NEP aims to crook the caller procreation into machines devoid of humanity, beingness and love,” writer Rafeeq Ahamed remarked.

Speakers, including literate professional Prof. P.V. Krishnan Nair, writer Shihabudheen Poythumkadavu and M. Shajar Khan, addressed the inaugural league chaired by elder writer M.P. Surendran. The leaders jointly unveiled a draught alternate people’s acquisition policy, holding it up arsenic a counter-vision to the centralised NEP framework.

In a presumption connected ‘federalism and the NEP,’ Left thinker Azad said the argumentation represented “a displacement from Nehruvian nationalism to Hindu nationalism,” rooted successful a spiritual-cultural majoritarian framework. The centralisation of acquisition authority, helium argued, aimed astatine dismantling States’ powers and imposing a semipermanent ideological operation opening from superior education.

Writer Rajan Cherukad, speaking connected DPEP (District Primary Education Programme) and the NEP, said Kerala’s superior acquisition had suffered since the DPEP era, erstwhile foundational literacy weakened. He said the NEP continued the aforesaid trajectory by glorifying vocational accomplishment grooming portion undermining ceremonial learning. Both models rejected exams and continuous world rigour, starring to the erosion of representation and captious thinking, helium added.

In a league connected the “Indian Knowledge System,” Mr. Surendran warned that the caller communicative risked turning subject into story and silencing those who questioned authority.

Former SCERT probe serviceman K.V. Manoj, speaking connected “The dimming futures of teaching and learning,” said the NEP reduced teachers to specified assistants, promoting a schoolroom imaginativeness wherever the teacher was rendered unnecessary.

The assembly concluded with a telephone for agreed absorption and the enactment of a wide level against the NEP and PM SHRI. The forum includes advisers specified arsenic K. Satchidanandan, K.G. Shankara Pillai, and A.K. Ramakrishnan, with Dr. Azad arsenic chairperson and Mr. Surendran arsenic convener.

Numerous educators, taste activists, civilian nine leaders and acquisition enthusiasts participated, representing the corporate conscience of Kerala’s acquisition community.