Notes on 'Craft Centred Curriculum'
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Craft-Centered Education: Craft is to be the center of education. Gandhiji believed that the highest development of mind and the soul was possible only through handicraft. The education of the child should begin with a useful and productive craft. The whole process of education should be imparted through it.
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Mahatma Gandhi’s views on education have inspired and invigorated several discussions and decisions on educational policy and practice. Kothari Commission Report (1964 -66) was significantly inspired by Gandhian philosophy while recommending reforms in schooling and technical training that have stayed with us till today. However, somewhere down the line, we seem to have lost a balanced approach to promote, pursue and reward vocational aspects of learning by doing, dignity of labour and other values to be inculcated at an early age. These were the main tenets of Gandhiji’s concept of craft-centric education that seems to find an echo in present initiatives at skill development and vocationalisation of school education in India.