New Delhi: A national research symposium ‘Convoke’ has been launched by the NITI Aayog. Convoke aims to address the challenges in imparting education and strengthening its quality focusing on all teachers, educationists and school heads across the country.
Government school teachers and principals from the Bharti Foundation network will be encouraged to use research-based solutions through scientific approach, and showcase their efforts taken at the grass-roots level in improving learning outcomes, read the official notice.
Teachers can share their micro research papers on the platform to be analysed by a panel of educationists. The selected research papers will be presented during the ‘National Research Symposium’ scheduled for January 2022.
CONVOKE are currently open on bhartifoundation.org, the registrations for which will continue till the January end. “The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 also recognises and identifies teachers and faculty as the heart of the learning process. It recommends that teachers will be recognised for novel approaches to teaching that improve learning outcomes in their classrooms. NEP recommends developing platforms so that teachers may share ideas and best practices for wider dissemination and replication,” the official notice read.
“There is a need to focus on quality as we have achieved near-universal access in elementary education. It becomes an immediate and foremost important task given the learning regression that has happened due to the COVID-19 school closures. I hope that CONVOKE will become a platform that will be pan-India and it will become a movement towards improving learning outcomes through joyful teaching and learning,” NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman, Dr Rajiv Kumar said.
“The findings from the ground by the teachers on ‘what works’ will help policymakers to design policies that are responsive to the needs of the grassroots. It will also inform the academia of the challenges associated with improving learning outcomes and potential research areas where the teachers at grassroots could even be co-investigators,” NITI Aayog’s Chief Executive Officer, Amitabh Kant was quoted as saying by News18.
.@NITIAayog and Bharti Foundation announce the launch of ‘Convoke 2021-22’
✅Inviting research papers for a National Level Symposium to be held in January 2022
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