Group Inquiry (Promotion of Indian Languages, Arts & Culture)
India is a treasure trove of culture, developed over thousands of years and manifested in the form of arts, works of literature, customs, traditions, linguistic expressions, artefacts, heritage sites, and more. In NEP 2020, there is major focus given to promoting Indian Languages, Arts and Culture by incorporating all forms of Indian Arts and Languages at all levels of education. Cultural awareness and expression are considered important contributors for individual, societal and national well-being. Though currently, there aren’t many platforms that bring the data of all the policies, bills, acts or reports related to it together. These documents are not drawn, only for the reason of promotion and preservation of Indian Languages, Arts and Culture but are also to bring changes in the ways it is accessed and practiced. Thus, the overall idea that the group is proposing is to bring all this information together and disseminating it in a way to bring out various delicacies that lie hidden in these documents. The group visions this platform to be collaborative and will look at the historical framework of policies to paint this vision. The platform will be untexting the following four aspects through various documents:
1. Policies that display the hidden aspects of relationship between art education and the notion of development, and the way “art education” has been articulated by developing or developed nation.
2. Policies that ponder to integrate art education into the main curriculum under the major sections of: Teacher & Administrator.
3. Policies that look at integrating local content and local languages in educational materials and curriculum.
4. Policies that talk of “Books” as a medium of education and affects the content that goes inside these educational materials.
Divyarajsinh Rana
Bhavitraa Thilagar
Purav Raval
Kulvardhan Ranawat