Experiential Learning & Nai Talim are intimately integrated to one another, how? Just go through the ppt

1. Experiential Learning
&
Nai Talim
Dr. Vijay Kumar
Faculty, School of Education &
Programme Coordinator NSS/UBA
Apeejay Stya University

2. Dr. Vijay Kumar, Teacher Educator,
School of Education, Apeejay Stya
8/2/20202

3. Experiential Learning
 Yes learning through experience
 But only experience enough?
 But not only experience, there are other components
of EL
Dr. Vijay Kumar, Teacher Educator,
School of Education, Apeejay Stya
8/2/20203

4. Experiential Learning: Misconception
 Experiential learning has to happen outdoors.
Experiential learning activities can be outdoors, but
certainly don't have to be.
1. Taking students outside on a sunny spring day for
lecture and worksheets = X
2. An indoor open inquiry activity would be more
experiential than passive learning activities taken
outdoors.
Dr. Vijay Kumar, Teacher Educator,
School of Education, Apeejay Stya
8/2/20204

5. Experiential Learning
 Applying the concepts you already know to real
situations
Dr. Vijay Kumar, Teacher Educator,
School of Education, Apeejay Stya
8/2/20205

6. Dr. Vijay Kumar, Teacher Educator,
School of Education, Apeejay Stya
8/2/20206

7. Active Involvement of students
 Active Involvement, Not passive
 Active participation by students in the teaching
learning process
 Pin Drop silence- not indicator of effective classroom
Dr. Vijay Kumar, Teacher Educator,
School of Education, Apeejay Stya
8/2/20207

8. Freedom to fail
 Active learning means chances of mistakes
 Learning happens through the entire process
 Fear of failure kills creativity and innovation
capability in the students
 Important in STEM, STEAM
 It should welcome mistakes, failure, and trial and
error
Dr. Vijay Kumar, Teacher Educator,
School of Education, Apeejay Stya
8/2/20208

9. Personalised or tailor made
 An activity is experiential when it's meaningful to
each individual student.
 The activity should meet the diverse need,
backgrounds, interests, goals, and skill levels of
each student.
 Unique for each
 Tailor made
 Different for different people
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School of Education, Apeejay Stya
8/2/20209

10. Student led Learning
 Student should lead the process of learning
 Students at the forefront
 Teacher- Guide, Friend and Philosopher
Dr. Vijay Kumar, Teacher Educator,
School of Education, Apeejay Stya
8/2/202010

11. Authentic experiences
 Learning experiences authentic when learning
connected with the real world
 Gap between theory and practice will create
dilemma
 The brain needs real-life connections to retain
information.
 Students need to see how what their learning applies
to life.
Dr. Vijay Kumar, Teacher Educator,
School of Education, Apeejay Stya
8/2/202011

12. Purpose need to be clear
 Why? They are doing what they are doing?
 Only marks are not important, tell
 Why marks are important as what do they indicate?
 What does more marks indicate
 With purpose comes intrinsic motivation to learn
Dr. Vijay Kumar, Teacher Educator,
School of Education, Apeejay Stya
8/2/202012

13. The experience is student-directed
 Students should have control and investment in
their learning.
 Any experiential learning activity should be student-
driven or at a minimum, student-centered.
 Student-directed learning gives students choice in
 topic,
 process, and
 outcome.
Dr. Vijay Kumar, Teacher Educator,
School of Education, Apeejay Stya
8/2/202013

14. Reflection
 John Dewey said, "We do not learn from
experience...we learn from reflecting on
experience."
 Without reflection, everything said up to this point is
moot.
 Students need ample opportunity to look back at
their successes and failures, which there will be a lot
of in experiential learning.
 They should analyze their work, not just the final
outcome, but the entire learning process.
 It encourages acceptance of constructive feedback
and continuous self-improvement throughout life.
Dr. Vijay Kumar, Teacher Educator,
School of Education, Apeejay Stya
8/2/202014

15. Bonus: Use the community as a resource
Community outreach is a huge plus when it comes to
experiential learning.
It might mean bringing students out of the classroom
to utilize a community resource, or inviting community
experts into your classroom.
You could bring community members in as speakers,
helpers, or teachers.
Utilizing community experts in an important part of
project-based learning, making the experience
authentic
Dr. Vijay Kumar, Teacher Educator,
School of Education, Apeejay Stya
8/2/202015

16. David A. Kolb
 Experiential Learning: Experience as the Source of
Learning and Development (Book, 1984)
 Based on the works of
 John Dewey,
 Jean Piaget,
 Carl Jung,
 Kurt Lewin, and
 William James.
 He believes that the center of learning is the
learner's subjective experience.
Dr. Vijay Kumar, Teacher Educator,
School of Education, Apeejay Stya
8/2/202016

17. The Experiential Learning Cycle
(Kolb, 1984)
Formation of
Abstract concepts
and generalization
Symbolic
Testing Implications
of concepts in New
Situation
Behavioural
Concrete
Experiences
Affective
Observations and
Reflections
Perceptual
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School of Education, Apeejay Stya
8/2/202017

18. Kolb's
learning
styles
Reflective
Observation
Watching
Concrete
Experience
Feeling
Active
Experimentation
Doing
Abstract
Conceptualisation
Thinking
Processing Continuum
how we do things
Percep
tion
Contin
uum
how we
think
about
things
Assimilating
(think and watch)
AC/RO
Diverging
(feel and watch)
CE/RO
Converging
(think and do)
AC/AE
Accommodating
(feel and do)
CE/AE
Dr. Vijay Kumar, Teacher Educator,
School of Education, Apeejay Stya
8/2/202018

19. Background of Nai Talim
 British Raj
 Lord Maculay- Education
 Purpose of British Scheme:
 to create clerks who can read and write and understand
instructions of British officers
 to create good image of foreign culture in the minds of
commoners
 To destroy indian conscience which consider its ancient
education system based on gurukul and asharam system

Dr. Vijay Kumar, Teacher Educator,
School of Education, Apeejay Stya
8/2/202019

20.  Britishers always took pride to be rulers of India
 Considered India as their most important colony.
 Charles Grant, who was an M.P of British India, in
1792 made a strong case for the introduction of
education in English than in vernacular and said
English language as 'the vehicle for imparting
western ideas’ or as he called them "our superior
lights."
 He hoped the apparent suppression of vernacular by
English language would help in promoting
Christianity in India.
Dr. Vijay Kumar, Teacher Educator,
School of Education, Apeejay Stya
8/2/202020

21.  He proposed to introduce into the bill a specific
measure for the encouragement of missionaries
and schoolmasters to be sent out from England.
 But the opposite party in the Court of Directors urged
"that the Hindus had as good a system of faith
and of morals as most people and that it would
be madness to attempt their conversion or to
give them any more learning or any other
description of learning than what they already
possessed."
Dr. Vijay Kumar, Teacher Educator,
School of Education, Apeejay Stya
8/2/202021

22.  However Britishers through Macaulay’s minutes tried
to impose British system of education on India
 Tried to control mind of Indians by shaping education
policy favouring British rule.
 According to him ‘a single shelf of a good
European library was worth the whole native
literature of India and Arabia’.
Dr. Vijay Kumar, Teacher Educator,
School of Education, Apeejay Stya
8/2/202022

23.  He said Britishers should
‘attempt to educate the body of the people. We must at
present do our best to form a class who may be
interpreters between us and the millions whom we
govern, -a class of persons Indian in blood and colour,
but English in tastes, in opinions, in morals and in
intellect’.
Dr. Vijay Kumar, Teacher Educator,
School of Education, Apeejay Stya
8/2/202023

24.  In his famous minute on education (1835), he
advocated promotion of English education in
India at the expense of Sanskrit, Arabic and
Persian which were taught in the colonial schools at
that time.
 He started a system of education which was foreign
to the Indians and developed values system totally
different from the values system developed under
Oriental scheme of education in India, in Gurukuls
and Madrasas.
Dr. Vijay Kumar, Teacher Educator,
School of Education, Apeejay Stya
8/2/202024

25.  Suppression of studies in vernacular and vernacular
studies was done in order to create special place for
those studying English and in English medium.
 This led to the alleged belief that whatever is coming
from the British culture is good.
 Therefore, interest of people in Indian studies, its culture,
values and ethics dropped and saw a downfall during the
British rule in India
 Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) is
popularly known as Lord Macaulay and is considered as
the architect of British Education System in India
 Macaulay's Minute on Education,(1835) accessed
https://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/23265
 Ibid.
Dr. Vijay Kumar, Teacher Educator,
School of Education, Apeejay Stya
8/2/202025

26. Famous Speech by Lord Maculay
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School of Education, Apeejay Stya
8/2/202026

27. Education by Gandhi
 “By education, I mean an all round drawing out of
best in man and child- mind, body and spirit”
 Holistic Approach
 Education needs to focus on all-round development
 it is best obtained through experience.
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School of Education, Apeejay Stya
8/2/202027

28. Nai Talim
 Education or learning in mother tongue along with
handicraft work,
 Work should be linked with most useful vocational
needs of the locality,
 Learning should be linked with vocational work, and
 Work should be socially useful and productive
needed for living.
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School of Education, Apeejay Stya
8/2/202028

29.  This approach of work centric education with
technology accessible locally was basic approach of
Nai Talim.
 Nai Talim had inherent philosophy of non-violence,
equality and oppression free society.
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School of Education, Apeejay Stya
8/2/202029

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School of Education, Apeejay Stya
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School of Education, Apeejay Stya
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School of Education, Apeejay Stya
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School of Education, Apeejay Stya
8/2/202033

34. “Experiential Learning – Gandhiji’s
Nai Talim (Book on Nai Talim)
 Inspire this movement to cover progressively
 25 crore students of educational institutes at different
levels in the country covering
 80 lakh primary school teachers and
 20 lakh secondary school teachers,
 spread over 17.5 lakh primary schools and
 2.5 lakh secondary schools across the country
Dr. Vijay Kumar, Teacher Educator,
School of Education, Apeejay Stya
8/2/202034

35. Reference
 https://www.experientiallearningdepot.com/blog/what
-is-experiential-learning-anyway
 www.mgncre.ac.in
 www.pib.gov.in
 http://gipe.ac.in/online-resources/
 www.jmi.ac.in
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School of Education, Apeejay Stya
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