Vega
Schools one of the pioneers in reinventing the Indian primary education sector,
recently announced its plans to revolutionize the Indian primary education
vertical in association with Harvard Graduate school of education.
Sharing
his thoughts on the collaboration, Christopher Williams, Doctorate of Education
Learship Program, Harvard University said, "Aaron Jennings, (Harvard
Graduate School of Education), Himanshu Joshi (Columbia University Teachers
College) and I have proposed a partnership with Vega School. After visiting,
Aaron and I was struck by the similarities between the PBL approach at Vega and
some of the primary tenets and authors being studied in the Doctorate of
Education Leadership Program (EdLD) at Harvard. Moreover, Vega’s approach to
hiring and training staff is exceedingly similar to the approach of many
Deliberately Developmental Organizations, and the description of Adult
Development put forth by Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey, both of Harvard."
As a
first step, Christopher Williams, MSW and Aaron Jennings, MSW, visited Vega
Schools in Gurgaon to discuss and deliberate on the widening skill-job gap in
India. Additionally, they took note of the unique open classroom approach
adopted by the school to imbed ‘real life’ skills in its students. Furthermore,
they lauded the school’s commitment towards connecting the Indian education
system with the global knowledge economy.
Extensive
research in progressive schools across the world have concluded that confined
learning is not effective. The real world is far more ambiguous and rigid
structures that impose extrinsic discipline are, in fact, not equipping to
learners to develop intrinsic discipline to deal with the world, manage their
own time and schedule, or even set their own goals and paths.
Commenting
on the development, Mr. Sandy Hooda, Co-Founder, Vega Schools said “It comes as
no surprise to us that our teaching techniques, infrastructure and classroom
culture are getting the desired positive response from both Christopher and
Aaron.
Furthermore,
it gives us immense pride to associate ourselves with the Harvard Graduate
School of Education, to collaborate and raise the benchmark for the Indian
primary education vertical. The research team will have members from both Vega
Schools and HGSE and will aim to study new paradigms, which could possibly
solve problems such as mass global unemployment and creating a new kind of
workforce for the 21st century knowledge economy. We are optimistic, that the
research will shed new light on how India can become an education hub and a
human capital resource pool for the world, by 2020.”
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