Author: Deepti Sharma, Principal Pragyan Public School, Jewar.
Richard Riley, the former US Secretary of Education, said that “We need to prepare students for jobs that don’t yet exist, to use technologies that haven’t been invented in order to solve problems we don’t know are problems yet.” In order to support these changes, education needs to focus more on learning which is experimental and experiential rather than being just knowledge transmission. The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 emphatically insists on experiential learning in all stages. Storytelling-based pedagogy is another tool that must be implemented for each subject. Today, experiential learning has become an essential method in all innovative pedagogical practices as it strives to shift the child from rote learning and memorization to learning by doing.
