Multi disciplinary Approach in Education in the Context of AI Invasion

Abstract

 Education as a process of teaching and learning in a formal institutional structure in India is a modern concept. It was the East India Company and the British India educational policy under the pressure of Joti Rao Phule in a memorandum to the Hunter Commission in 1882 that education was democratised. However, a large section of the former untouchables, service castes, and converts from socially and educationally deprived sections have remained outside the portals of school education. After independence, activist groups waged protracted struggles for the universalisation of education in the name of ‘education for all’. Social and political pressure from these groups led to the constitutional guarantee of free and compulsory elementary education in 2009. Education up to the age of 14 became a Right under Article 21A. This has revolutionised education policy and enabled the government to approve the National Policy 2020 in the twenty-first century. It has rightly addressed the issues of school education and drafted a new structure to facilitate the state’s  implementation of the mandate of Article 21A of the Constitution of India. Simultaneously, the UNO directed all member states to achieve Sustainable Development goals, particularly Goal 4, relating to education. This has placed moral compulsion on the government to formulate policies to attain the universalisation of elementary education and increase GER in higher education.