New Education Policy, Sustainable Development and Nation Building Perspectives, Issues and Challenges

PART I: Introduction

1 New Education Policy, Sustainable Development, and Nation-Building: Historical Moorings, Contemporary Discourse, and Future Prospects

MANISH K. VERMA AND MONI CHANDRA

2 India’s New Educational Policy: Its Influence and Challenges

B.K. NAGLA

PART II: Perspectives on New Education Policy and Nation-Building

3 National Education Policy 2020: A Synergy and A Sociology

SOUMYAJIT PATRA

4 Education Policy, Sustainable Development Goals, and Nation-Building: Exploring Synergies with Dayalbagh Education Policy

POORNIMA JAIN

5 National Educational Policy 2020: An Effort towards Liberating Learning Landscape through Intellectual Decolonization

SHWETA PRASAD

6 Delving Gandhi in New Education Policy 2020

SHEFALI RAI AND SHATAKSHI ANAND

7 NEP 2020: Transcending Indian Ethos and Values towards Creating a Global Knowledge Society

KESHAV MISHRA AND ROHIT KUMAR

PART III: Issues of New Education Policy and Sustainable Development

8 Leadership in Indian Higher Education: Negotiating the Sustainable Development Goals

AARTI SRIVASTAVA AND SOUMINI GHOSH

9 NEP 2020 and Critical Thinking

TAPAN R. MOHANTY

10 New Education Policy and Women’s Education: A Critical Appraisal

MOHAMMAD AKRAM AND RABIYA YASEEN BAZAZ

11 Informal Employment in India: Emerging Trends of Gig Economy and the Role of the New Education Policy

SURENDRA MEHER, ANUSHKA SINGH AND SHIVANSH TRIPATHI

12 Sustainable Development, Vocational Education, and Nation-Building: The Role of Civil Society in Promoting NEP 2020

SUMEDHA DUTTA

13 Discourse on Sustainability and Impact of NEP on Mental Health in Higher Education Institutes

RITU SHARMA

14 Scope of Mass Media in the Education and National Education Policy 2020

SUSMITA BHATTACHARYA, PRARTHITA BISWAS AND SAMHITA CHAUDHURI

PART IV: Challenges of New Education Policy, Sustainable Development, and Nation-Building

15 A Critical Introspection of Dalits and the New Education Policy

ANTARA RAY

16 New Education Policy 2020 and Indigenous Children’s Right to Education: A Case Study of Odisha

ANNAPURNA DEVI PANDEY

17 Tracing the Trajectory of ECCE in India in the Context of NEP 2020: Opportunities and Challenges

PURBA CHATTOPADHYAY

18 Inclusive Education for Children with Special Needs and New Education Policy 2020: Assessing Ground Realities

NAMITA GUPTA AND PARDEEP KUMARI

19 Challenges and Possibilities of National Education Policy 2020: An Empirical Understanding of Scheduled Tribes of Paschim Midnapore, West Bengal, India

SAMITA MANNA AND ARITRA GHOSH

20 Hybrid Learning: Issues and Challenges of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

SHEETAL SHARMA

Biography

Manish K. Verma is Dean of the Ambedkar School of Social Sciences and of the School of Vocational & Futuristic Studies. He is Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology at Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar (Central) University, Lucknow, India, and is Council Member, Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), Ministry of Education, Government of India. He is also former Secretary (2022–2023), Indian Sociological Society, New Delhi.