The Bhawanipur Education Society organized the webinar

1. THE CHANGING FABRIC
OF EDUCATION –
THE IMPACT ON
INTELLECT AND
INDUSTRY
BY ABHISHEK BAGCHI
PRINCIPAL, RMPS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

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3. CONTENT
• The Evolution
• The Disruptions
• The Paradigm Shift in Education
• Impact of Covid 19 Pandemic in Education
• Challenges & Solutions
• The Way Forward
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4. THE EVOLUTION
“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to change.”
-Carl Rogers
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5. EVOLUTION OF EDUCATIONTIMELINE [B.C.]
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Egypt's Middle
Kingdom
• Around 2061 BC
China Xia dynasty/
Yao & Shun
• Around 2050 BC
Indian Vedic
Education
• Around 1500 BC
Confucius in Japan
• 6th Century BC
Greece & Rome
• 5th & 4th Century BC
Takshashila India
• 5th Century BC

6. EVOLUTION OF EDUCATIONTIMELINE [A.D.]
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Roman Catholic Church
(Early Middle Age)
•Around 500 AD
Nalanda, Takshashila,
Ujjain & Vikramshila
University
•Starting from 5th Century AD
Islamic Education
•Around 11th Century AD
The Renaissance in
Europe
•13th Century AD
Aztec & Inca
•Starting from 15th Century
AD
East India Company
•18th Century
Invention of
Blackboard
•Around 1801
Introduction of Pencil
and Paper
•Around 1900
Factory Model School
•20th Century
Maria Montessori
•20th Century
First Computer Used in
School
•1959
National Policy in
Education
•1968
RTE & Compulsory
Education Act
•2009
New National
Education Policy
•2020

7. THE DISRUPTIONS
“Change is inevitable, and the disruption it causes often brings both inconvenience
and opportunity.”
-Robert Scoble
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8. THE INVENTION OF
WRITING
At one time education was conveyed in the form
of entertainment, in the same way that we
consume movies, television shows and music.
Educators were once famous entertainers and
artists, like our musicians and actors.
Much of the following history of education
involves a conflict between the providing of
information to be memorized and a more
personal interaction between the student and
the teacher able to provide demonstrations of
skills, methods of thought, and modes of
behavior.
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9. THE RISE OF MEDIEVAL
GUILDS
Within the Medieval Period several
developments led to dramatic changes in the
forms education takes. One of these key
changes was the rise of groups of craftsmen
who, often in secret, developed and maintained
standards for their areas of work. These became
professional guilds.
Guilds served to refine and standardize a unique
model of education, specifically apprenticeship,
through which students studied for a particular
amount of time with a mask of a craft before
gaining the status of a legitimate craftsman.
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10. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF
UNIVERSITIES
The largely practical guild networks protected
within the free cities soon gave rise to a very
different model of education, that of the
university. Universities started out as
themselves guilds, although they tended
towards more advanced scholarly activity than
the craft skills of concern to most guilds.
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11. COLONIALISM
Throughout history education has been tied to
issues of political power. As Europe expanded
its political and religious influence through
exploration, conquest and colonization it brought
with it models of education intended to help
solidify its world power. The 18th and
19th Centuries saw massive world-wide changes
to education fueled by the needs of colonial
governance in places like Africa and India.
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12. THE INVENTION OF THE
FEMALE TEACHER
Sexism and the systematic denial to women of
access to education loom large in the history of
the world. It is interesting, however, that the
creating of the image of the female teacher was
a valuable, if limited, move in the war for sexual
equality and a decisive development in the
history of education.
If you consider the power involved in the role of
educator it is clear that for much of history the
secondary status of women was maintained by
distancing them from knowledge. The entrance
of women generally into education was a
decisive revolution in this history and it occurred
in large part due to the work of several hardcore
female writers and teachers.
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13. WORLD WAR II
World War II taught the nations of the world the
lesson that education, whether used in the
invention and breaking of secret codes or the
development of planes and city-leveling bombs,
decides wars. In fact it has often been
suggested that a large part of why the war went
in the direction it did was because the Nazis had
driven out many of their best scientists.
It was considerations like these that contributed
to the largest expansion of education in the
United States in history at the same time that
other countries were pursuing similar
expansions.
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14. THE INDUSTRIAL
REVOLUTION
Rise of industries created demands of
standardized workers with some specific skills.
This resulted in some standardized curriculum
and assessment policies that is still prevalent in
our modern education system.
The objective of that education was to create
prototypes. Later on that education system was
often referred as ‘factory model education’.
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15. ADVENT OF INTERNET
Internet has provided the opportunity to gather
information from multiple resources for free.
This open source medium is reducing the gaps
between the much and the less privileged. The
information from different parts of the world are
now available through any electronic devices.
As time goes, the availability of this potentially
infinite information will be available to more
people at a time.
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16. COVID 19: THE PANDEMIC
Around 1.6 billion students were put out of
school for more than a year.
1.5 million schools remained closed in India
during the pandemic. 247 million Indian students
are affected.
Only 24% of Indian household had access to
internet.
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17. THE PARADIGM SHIFT IN EDUCATION
“Paradigm shifts aren’t always obvious when you’re in the middle of one.”
-Michael Brune
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19. THE SHIFT
20TH CENTURY LEARNING
• Teacher-centric education
• Lecture based teaching learning
• Passive learning
• Knowledge based learning
• Text book as primary resource
• Assessment of learning
• Core subjects given highest importance
• Corporal punishment prevalent
• Student-centric; student is the center of
learning
• Activity based student engagement
• Active learning
• Skill based learning
• Text book as one of the resource; varied
teaching aids and resources
• Assessment for/with learning
• Multidisciplinary & Interdisciplinary teaching
learning with dynamic & flexible curriculum
• No corporal punishment
21ST CENTURY LEARNING
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• 21st Century Skills
• Hybrid learning
• Inter/multi-disciplinary learning
• Experiential learning
• Gamification in learning
• STEM
• Social and Emotional Learning
21ST CENTURY LEARNING

21. IMPACT OF COVID 19 PANDEMIC IN EDUCATION
“Covid 19 will reshape our world. We don’t yet know when the crisis will end. But
we can be sure that by the time it does, our world will look very different.”
-Josep Borrell
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22. HISTORY OFVIRUS OUTBREAKS
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23. 1918 Spanish Flu outbreak witnessed millions of death and schools were closed for 15 weeks and more…
even after opening, the school students maintained strict precautions.
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24. THE WORLDTODAY:VUCA
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Plus, A Big Fear:
Fear of Mortality
Fear of Self Preservation

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27. GROUND REALITIES
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• Schools are closed.
• Presently we are uncertain about reopening.
• The world, under pressure, is moving online.
• Teachers have planned for remote lessons, often with very little
notice.
• Used to predictable, standardized, repetitive routines, it is proving to
be a huge challenge for the teachers.
• Blended learning (offline & online simultaneously) with inadequate
technological support is a next to impossible job for the teachers.
• It is a huge leap out of their comfort zones.
• To move from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset under physical,
psychological, economical and social stress.

28. A DAY INTHE LIFE OF…
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A LOCKED(?)DOWN TEACHER
A LOCKED (?)DOWN PRINCIPAL
A LOCKED (?)DOWN SCHOOL
OWNER/PROMOTER…
(Strictly Professional?)

29. Locked down Teacher
• Planning for lesson
• Implementing the plan
• Assessing the lesson
• Assessing learning
• Meeting students need
• Meeting parents need
• Managing household
• Managing insecurities
• Filling the gaps
• And…
Locked down Principal
• Supervising the
implantation model
• Assessing the model
• Redesigning the model
• Capacity building of
teachers
• Scaffolding teachers & staff
• Meeting students & parents
need
• Meeting senior
management needs
• Keeping the team spirit
intact
• Mitigating damage
• And…
• Mitigating the damage
• Managing budget
• Paying salaries on time
• Planning for future
• Providing support to the
team
• Sustaining the School
• And…
Locked down Promoter

30. PANDEMIC IMPACT
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PHYSICAL PSYCHOLOGICAL TECHNOLOGY
SOCIO-
EMOTIONAL
CULTURAL FINANCIAL
PEDAGOGY
&ASSESSMENT
LEARNING
OUTCOMES

31. PHYSICAL IMPACT
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Dedicated
Workspace
Interruptions
Privacy
Teaching
without
physical
presence Lack of activity
Appropriate
Infrastructure
Network Range

32. PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACT
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Loneliness
Blurring of
boundaries
Anxiety &
Depression
Never
switching off
Motivation
Pressure of delivering quality
lessons under severe stress
Time
Management

33. TECHNOLOGICAL IMPACT
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Bandwidth
issues
Network speed
Connectivity
Cost
Hardware
Unviable
devices
Compatibility
issues
Software
Lack of skills
Restrictions to learning
opportunities

34. SOCIO-EMOTIONAL IMPACT
Doomscrolling
Support
Productivity
No time off
FOBO
Developing new
competencies
Upskilling
FOMO

35. CULTURAL IMPACT
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Home maker
before teacher Family before
Profession
Patriarchy Fixed Mindsets
Refusal to adapt Challenged Mindsets
Threatened
Mindsets
Panic Mindsets

36. FINANCIAL IMPACT
Importance to
adaptive roles
Prolonged
lockdown
limitations
Household
Help wages
Burn through
savings
Will I get my
next salary?
EMI
Economy in
Free Fall

37. PEDAGOGY & ASSESSMENT IMPACT
How to assess?
How to
invigilate?
Transforming
existing
pedagogies for
remote
learning
How to
administer?
How to report?

38. LEARNING OUTCOME IMPACT
Permanent
system shifts New Career
conundrum
How relevant
are results
Curriculum
changes

39. CHALLENGES & SOLUTIONS
“Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.”
-African Proverb
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STUDENT’S PERSPECTIVE
Physical
•Limited scope of movement results in lack of exercises.
Psychological
•Being constantly getting dominated and staying under supervision creates an immense emotional
stress.
Socio-Emotional
•Hardly anyone listens or understands the emotional needs of the young learners.
Cultural
•The likes and dislikes of the students are naturally different than the adults which in turn creates rift.
Technical
•Most of the time they suffer from unavailability of devices or lack of proper internet bandwidth.
Operational
•Working from home means working from a comfort zone that requires tremendous self motivation.

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PARENTS’ PERSPECTIVE
Physical
•Staying in close proximity with the child often results in some unwanted conflicts.
Psychological
•Constant intervention and supervision results in a feeling of loss and that creates unnecessary stress.
Socio-Emotional
•Comparison with neighbour coupled with lack of knowledge in learning pedagogies creates unnecessary
tension.
Cultural
•High expectation of parents on their child creates added pressure on both.
Technical
•Lack of technical knowledge and inability to provide the child with adequate technical support results in
stress.
Operational
•Managing household work and satisfying the needs of the child is challenging enough.

42. THE NEW SET OF CHALLENGES…
IN ADDITIONTOTHE OLDER ONES…
STUDENTS,TEACHERS,PARENTS ETC..
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• POWER CUT
• SYSTEM INCOMPATIBLE
• SYSTEM NOT WORKING
• CANNOT HEAR YOU
• VIDEO NOT RECEIVED
• LP NOT RECEIVED
• CLOUD AND WORK SYNC
OFF
• DELIBERATE MUTING
• NETWORK PROBLEM
• INTERNET PROBLEM
• DEVICE PROBLEM
• DAD/MUM/BROTHER/SISTER
USING DEVICES
• DATA PACK EXHAUSTED
• OUT OF COVERAGE AREA
• MESSAGE NOT RECEIVED
• EMAIL NOT RECEIVED

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10
30
50 50
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20
30
70
90
100 100
80
100
90
Physical Psychological Socio-Emotional Cultural Pedagogical Technical Operational
Challenges Faced by Teachers Pre and Post Covid-19 Outbreak (in percentage)
Before Lockdown After Lockdown
Data collected from 300 teachers all
across the country

44. THE
SOLUTIONS
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Move from
Stage of Fear to
Stage of Growth

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Physical
• Exercise/Yoga 10 minutes
• Get up from your chair every 20
minutes
• Walk around the house every 40
minutes
• Create mutual spaces for each
family members inside the home.
• While delivering live synchronous
lessons, after each 15 minutes
there must be a 2 minutes
stretching break.
• Reduce screen time
• Maximum 3 hours
• To be reduced for lower classes
Psychological
• Practice meditation/yoga or at
least listening to music or dance
or doing art.
• Explore some of your hidden
interests like playing musical
instruments, reading, gardening,
origami, writing, singing, dancing,
etc.
• Talk to people whom you admire.
• Speak to an expert if required.
There is no shame to speak to a
psychologist.
Socio-Emotional
• Schedule your work. Make an
internal time table and display it
for everyone in the family.
• Make sure to have a family time
(specially during the lunch-dinner
time) where the whole family sits
together and talk. No electronic
devices must be on during that
time period.
• Involve other members in your
work and explain them the
gravity of your work.
• Write a log everyday of your work
and if possible publish it in a blog.
• Never ever talk to your
neighbours about your work.

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Cultural
• Explore all positive
news. Ignore negative
talks around you.
• Identify a mentor in
your circle and make
sure you talk to
him/her everyday.
• Try to appreciate the
perspective of other
members in your family
and accept mistakes.
Pedagogical
• Research, research and
research.
• Play with your strength.
• Never hesitate to try
new things or even
imitate some new
teaching learning
strategies that you have
come across.
• Communicate with
your peers and
mentors, learn from
them continuously.
Technical
• Stress on asynchronous
communication more.
• Make sure the lesson
that you are making is
of high quality before
you move to some new
technology.
• Never hesitate to ask
for help.
• Practice in a demo
environment enough
before trying it actually
with students.
Operational
• You need to create your
priority list and make a
schedule accordingly.
• Read about urgent-
important quadrant
and practice that in
your life.
• URGENT & IMPORTANT
• URGENT
• IMPORTANT
• ROUTINE

48. THE WAY FORWARD
“The future of the world is in my classroom today.”
-Ivan Fitzwater
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I do not know…
I made a mistake…
I apologize…
I have failed…
Thank you…
THE FIVE ENDURING MANTRAS FOR AN EDUCATOR

50. THE SILVER LINING
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Post-Covid We Will Value Our:
Sustainable environment
 Health and hygiene.
 Relationship more than before.
Physical labour and specially the importance of those serving you from lower
economic/social strata of our society.
Selflessness and interdependency
Our new sets of skills/competencies
 Our ability to sustain with minimum resources
Holistic, problem/solution based learning
And
Schools will never be closed from now onwards.

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• Personalised Learning
• Augmented Reality
• Artificial Intelligence
• Machine Learning
• Robotics
• IoT
• Cryptocurrency & Blockchain
• 3D Printing
• CRISPR, Biohackers
• Big Data
• Sustainability
• Collaboration
THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION
COVID-19 SHOWED USTHATTHE
EDUCATION COMMUNITY NEEDTO BE
MORE CREATIVE, INNOVATIVE, AND
ENABLE NEW MODELS FORTHE
TEACHING LEARNING PROCESS, IN
CONSONANCE WITHTHE NEEDS OF
THE FOURTH INDUSTRIAL
REVOLUTION, ANDTHE REST OF 21ST
CENTURY…

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