Rebooting Pedagogy and Education systems for the Twenty-first Century: Why we need course-corrections immediately

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Education is the fundamental pillar upon which any human civilization rests. As a matter of fact, no
civilization in any meaningful form or degree has been possible in human history that has not been
built on the bulwark and edifice of education. While literacy may have been limited to the privileged
few in early ancient civilizations, it was these privileged few who controlled the masses and set the
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tempo for meaningful progress in such civilizations; educational systems have proven to be the
bedrock and foundational pillar upon which much of human accomplishment and achievement have
rested, too. In spite of the naysayers, the cynics and the pessimists, education has expanded greatly in
the twentieth century; while the worlds’ earliest civilizations were not western in the canonical sense
of the term, there is no denying that western civilizations have pulled away strongly since...

About the Author

Sujay Rao Mandavilli is an IT professional (Governance Risk and Compliance) (Still practising as of 2024; Served major clients such as Tata Group, Mahindra Group, NECAM, Verizon and BAT, and also previously worked in IBM) and a born-again Anthropologist and researcher with major contributions to various fields of Anthropology and Social Sciences. He completed his Masters in Anthropology from the prestigious Indira Gandhi National Open University in New Delhi, India in 2020 with a first class. He has made major contributions to Anthropological Economics, the Sociology of Science, theories of socio-cultural change, Identity theory, Historiography, language dynamics, scientific method, Indo-European studies, the Aryan Problem, and the identity of the Harappans. His hypothesis is that most fields of Social sciences which are based on a study on social and cultural variables, are based on old Eurocentric paradigms, and that better theories can only come from intellectual multipolarity, and Ethnographic data...

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