Our Learning

According to a report on Learning and Development, most of the organisations are now revising their learning strategy to focus more on the learner and his learning needs in order to form a stronger link between a learner’s learning and the organisation’s performance. The organisations are eventually exploring different learning modalities and use of different technologies to make the learning more effective for learner.  Considering this to be a positive step towards recognising the learner and his learning needs in sync with his and the organisation’s performance, we can hope that this practice gains momentum and the present facts that I am going to share with you become glimpses from the past of learning and development functions and practices: The primary objective of learning and development is to help the learner to develop the required behavioural traits and skill set needed to effectively achieve his functional/performance objectives.  (Refer to the post: WHY ASK?) Theref

This study is inspired by and in response to the following stimuli: 1.        The children can be taught in school how to grow their food. A pictorial message post on Facebook. 2.        In Japan, the school going children are taught hygiene and values in the first few years of their school life, before they are evaluated on their knowledge and learning. A pictorial message post on Facebook. 3.        Marks oriented education system… 4.        Students committing suicide owing to poor performance in exams and not being able to live up to the expectations of the parents and the society at large. 5.        School and College degree holders, but not braced with adequate employability skills. 6.        University students with political slogans demanding freedom, equality- equal opportunity, justice….. This inspired me to seek some information about gurukul system of education in ancient India. While studying about the Gurukul system of education in the Vedic times, I fo