Disha Milind Sawant, Student,K. J. Somaiya College Of Science And Commerce, Mumbai, India.
Abstract
The order in the process of facilitating education, acquisition of knowledge, skills, value, beliefs and habits has been revolutionised and undergone a massive reformation through years immemorable. With the increase in demography and thus competition all around, rising impact of technology in various fields and the academic ability dominating the view of intelligence has put aback the vitality of enhancing the practices of imparting education. A drastic effect on the generation today and to come, has thus resulted to a high need and pressure to study, comprehend and thus review the system of education followed in the world. This paper is a qualitative study of the importance of creativity in the methods of learning and teaching in various institutions; schools and colleges, highlighting its focus on the ‗then needed subjects for industrial work‘, which needs a memorable learning experience that interests the students and hence help them in making better career decisions. Students and teachers from different institutionswere surveyed to learn their view towards the working education system, their experience, opinions and suggestions with respect to the challenges they faced. The responses received pointed to the fact that many students and teachers have had a negative impact due to various dormant methods practiced with respect to learning and teaching in current institutions.
Keywords: process of facilitating education, creativity, memorable experience learning, dormant methods
Introduction : Education is the most important weapon that has the potential to bring a tremendous transformation in the lives of the people inthe society making the world even better place. Education is facilitating the children with the knowledge of the outer world, imbibing the skills within them to sustain in the environment, making them capable of taking their own decisions, and not just intelligent and turn into scholars but intellectual too. When the Industrial Revolution took place in the early 80s, people were made to work in these industries nonetheless. The children studying in schools were given education as per the needs of the industries they will have to work in, in the future. The approach of teaching and imparting education was highly dormant. The students were not pushed to think for the answers themselves but instead they were given the answers onplatter, without the students finding out their own way. This way of teaching was practised due to the methods of working in the industries. Employees dintneed to contribute into creative thinking matters but were expected to follow the set of instructions given to them. This way of learning not only stunted the brain growth in thinking out of the box but also made them indecisive giving rise to fear of making decision which resulted in the children avoiding the burden of situations where they would have to take big decisions.But the time has changed now. People are exploring and no longer working in industries. Children are engaging into practical work more than theoretical ones. However unfortunately the system of education remains the same and the method of teaching is fallow without creating a learning experience for the students to make learning as well as teachingcaptivating and memorably vivid.Teachers must orchestrate activities that generate and benefit the students with practical knowledge from the theoretical lectures in classrooms. This will increase the participation of the students in learning various subjects
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Review of Literature: ―There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion
that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and truths possess educational value in and of themselves is the reason why traditional education reduced the material of education so largely to a diet of pre-digested materials‖ (John Dewey, 1938) ―It is often said that education and training are the keys to the future. They are, but a key can be turned in two directions. Turn it one way and you lock resources away, even from those they belong to. Turn it the other way and you release resources and give people back to themselves. To realize our true creative potential—in our organizations, in our schools and in our communities—we need to think differently about ourselves and to act differently towards each
other. We must learn to be creative.‖ (Sir Ken Robinson, 2001)
―Even though high school students log more time in the classrooms than anywhere else, their memorable experiences rarely take place there.‖ (Susan Bedford, 1989)―Education is not only concerned with collecting information but also with the best ways of using information that has been collected‖ (Edward de Bono,1970) ―Preparation" is a treacherous idea. In a certain sense every experience should do something to prepare a person for later experiences of a deeper and more expansive quality. That is the very meaning of growth, continuity, reconstruction of experience. But it is a mistake to suppose that the mere acquisition of a certain amount of arithmetic, geography, history, etc., which is taught and studied because it may be useful at some time in the future, has this effect, and it is a mistake to suppose that acquisition of skills in reading and figuring will automatically constitute preparation for their right and effective use under conditions very unlike those in which they were acquired.‖(John Dewey, 1938).
Objectives and Methodology: The study aimed to find out the need of adapting performance learning and education. The data has been collected through questionnaire form of survey method. Simple random sampling has been used and total of 116 respondents were approached.
1. To incite the education system to adopt experienced learning and teaching.
2. To encourage and make realise the importance of creativity and experienced learning in our education system.
3. To motivate the students to hone their skills and pursue career in the fields of their own choices.
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Analysis : 72.4% of the respondents agree to this fact that the current system is directed towards theoretical approach. Most of the institutions even to this date still follow theoretical methods of teaching learning system. Imparting knowledge is done in the most uninteresting way possible which does not grab the attention and or pique curiosity among the learners.44.8% of the respondents agree that their institutions dint/ don‘t adopt performance based techniques of learning and teaching. Almost 60% of them disagree to these methods which are practiced. The students look forward to experience a better interactive and participative sessions in classroom. The institutions don‘t put in efforts or support the enhancingof methods ofdelivering memorable and productive lectures to every student which will not only make them attentive but will also be interesting for both, the students and the teachers, and also sharpen the brains of students helping them improvise their decision-making ability, make the intellectual as well as creative.
Recommendation/ suggestions:
1. Institutions should rise above books and make teaching performance based. 2. Innovative teaching techniques should be adopted.
3. Such approaches should be adopted where they build the character of every student and not smother creativity.
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choices of careers.
5. It should adopt more of a practical approach involving interactive sessions and many more participative activities along with theoretical approach and not just entirely theoretical way of teaching.
Conclusion:Classroom lectures are getting dull as days proceed making the brighter brains of every kid stagnant as they pass out of their schools. This is affecting and has affected the students big time. The method of giving answers to questions on platter to the students and not making them think for themselves has had a negative effect through time. Its proven that such methods have deteriorated their decision-making ability and the ability to think out of the box. They are programmed to follow certain sets of rules and work as given instructions without exploring their skills and honing them, without finding out their specialities and preferences. Its high time that performance based techniques of learning and teaching are adopted making studies practical based to enlighten the monotoned lectures,luring the students to participate in classroom. Students today despite of spending longer time in schools, colleges and various other institutions rarely feel that they learnt something productive or apply it in practical situations. Classroom teaching methods must captivate the interests of the students and get them transfixed using such techniques which are creative and fun, and that things learnt in classroom will be inscribed in their minds which they can apply in their lives ahead. This will strengthen and magnify the creative minds, with better, innovative, thinking ability, making successful career choices which ultimately lead to an illuminated world with great minds all around.
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