The Vice President of India, M. Venkaiah Naidu addressed the first National Conference of Educators for Nai Talim and Experiential Learning at the Mahatma Gandhi National Council of Rural Education, in Hyderabad.
Nai Talim:
Nai Talim is a principle promoted by Mahatma Gandhi which states that knowledge and work are not separate. Rather experiential learning or learning by doing is one the most effective methods.
To him, it is a holistic approach of developing body, mind and soul (hand, head and heart), by making a productive art, craft or community engagement activity as the centre of learning.
This was similar to what Confucius had said, “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand”.
Recent initiative:
In September 2018, Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister released a book titled “Experiential Learning – Gandhiji’s Nai Talim.
The book contains:
basic principles of Gandhiji’s Nai Talim and
Work and Education curriculum for Schools, D.Ed, B.Ed and Faculty Development Programmes for teachers.
This book and this project are a joint effort of Mahatma Gandhi National Council of Rural Education (MGNCRE), State Councils of Educational Research and Training (SCERTs) along with the universities in the country.
This curriculum was brought out simultaneously in 13 languagese., Assamese, Tamil, Bengali, Odiya, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi, Marathi, Telugu, Gujarati, Urdu, Hindi and English.
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