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EDUC 5210 - Issues with the Indian Education System

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EDUC 5210 - In this report the issue with the present Indian education system has been discussed in details. The issue which has been described in the report is that the present education system in India is more content based rather than being practical. The other problem that is being discussed in this report is that how caste issue and poverty is affecting each state of the Country.

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Running head: LITERATURE REVIEWIssues with the Indian Education SystemName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor’s Note
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1LITERATURE REVIEWViews of Research and Research Interest India has served as an epicenter of knowledge for centuries; world renowned greatscholars and intellects who has redefined the way the world runs in the current time are fromIndia. Arybhata popularly known as the founder of “zero” was an Indian mathematician andastronomer is one of the many scholars who are from ancient India and has contributed a lot inthe current education system. Dr.C.V.Raman, Rabindranath Tagore, J.C.Bose etc are all Indianswho have garnered great respect and awards from around the world (Maity & Maity, 2016). The history of Indian education system dates way back into the ancient times and it isrich and full of interesting facts. In the ancient times there was the Gurukulsystem, it isequivalent to a boarding school in recent times it is also one of the oldest system of education.Nalanda, is considered to be one of the oldest universities had around ten thousand students at atime. Sages and scholars were the teachers in the institutions and most of the knowledge impartwas oral and practical. Temples and community centers also organized classes for children’seducation. The students were taught various subjects and later different universities specializedin different subjects (Joshi & Gupta, 2017). During the 20th century the after the British colonized India they started their westernizedculture in the education system as they wanted their children to be educated in the way that isprevalent in their culture and hence set up schools in India. The advent of the presentarrangement of education with its westernized style of imparting knowledge was brought intoaction during the year 1854 by Sir Charles Wood. He set rules and guideline with the approval ofthe Governor of the East India Company about setting up a university based on the model ofuniversity of London (Mandal, 2017).
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2LITERATURE REVIEWThis system is still prevalent with few modifications here and there. One of the recentchanges that have taken place is the replacement of marks with grades. Over the years one of theprominent issues of the system is that the entire system is based on information and notknowledge (Pandya, 2014). IntroductionIn this report the issue with the present Indian education system has been discussed indetails. The issue which has been described in the report is that the present education system inIndia is more content based rather than being practical. The system is rigid and has beenfollowing a set pattern for a long time (Sinha, 2015). The syllabus has also not been modifiedwith respect to the latest research and findings (Woodhead, Frost & James, 2013). Globalizationhas affect a lot in the recent past but the changes that are required to have a flexible choice forthe children is still not available (Poor state education in India threatens the futures of millions ofchildren, 2017). The problem that is being discussed in this report is that how caste issue andpoverty is affecting each state of the Country (Dora, 2014). Research QuestionsWhat are the fundamental issues with the Indian education system in the current scenario?What are the issues with the application of the Right to education?What is the scenario with primary education with the marginalized and financially week group of people?
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3LITERATURE REVIEWLiterature reviewIssues with Indian Education system Basant & Sen, 2014. have stated in their report that there has been a shortfall in theinvolvement of financially week and marginalized groups in Higher Education in India.According to the authors research show in the recent times that the role of society and religiousconformation are one of the most prime factors in determining the higher education of the youthon the country. They discuss that proper rules and guidelines to assist in the participation ofhigher education can have a positive result in the marginalized group of people. The duo statesthat the nature and the behavioral pattern of the backward casts like the SCs and the STs in everystate of India are diverse in nature this is due to the difference in the culture of the state they arefrom. This also effects in the perception of education among the people one of the major issues isthat there is a lack of access of education in some parts as well in the elementary level.However, in the context of higher education, the lower participation emerges both from the lackof demand arising from the facts discussed above, along with the presence of supply sideconstraints existing in Indian Higher Education. Dattatraya, Tated, Falch & Prasad 2015 have stated in their findings that, globalization haslent a lot to the education system all over the world and also in India to its core and is nowchildren had to compete on a global basis to make a mark. The report talks about a lot ofdifficulties and problems that re faced by the teachers in the education system as well as the faultin the training and skill development of the educators in the recent times. The authors have triedto analyze the situation and conditions related to the technical institutes. The demand for the
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