School Education of 21ST Century and Its Necessity in Nepal

Transforming Education for the 21st Century in Nepal

Abstract

Education is at the heart of humanistic development. The goals of future-oriented education are defined by the development process as the collective vision of the society. Education as knowledge is one of the creative elements in the formation of that collective vision, and is also one of the important means for realizing the agenda of human ascent from the shadows out. Developmental transformation occurs when, and not before, there is a confluence of constructive socio-economic factors, the knowledge base, the engagement of human resources and a fundamental revolution of values. The development process then becomes a holistic structure and no factor in it economic cultural, social or intellectual — can be understood except in relation to the Education for the twenty-first century whole. Education has a catalytic role in each of the elements as well as in the development process as a whole. ‘Historically, the assessment of cognitive and social competencies and attributes has relied on different approaches. The cognitive has been predominately based on correct versus incorrect answers, whereas the social has relied on self-report estimates. The emergence of interest in skills that are no longer defined uniquely within one of the spheres provokes query about whether they can be assessed in a common way’