The Fourth Industrial Revolution has changed the way work is managed in every sector. This has pushed automation to the forefront like never before. A People Strong report claims that automation will kill more than 1.5 million jobs in the country. This would result in an immediate socioeconomic disadvantage.
In this scenario, preparing students for the coming changes is crucial, and the education system will play a major role in this. We need many dedicated projects that encourage a curriculum designed to help students become independent thinkers and secure their future without any limitations.
Chitkara University has taken a step forward in this direction by offering the EDUREFORM curriculum to mitigate the impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution by introducing new study habits to students in the modern classroom.
See how students can ultimately become all-around learners who can leverage the impact of EDUREFORM in the modern classroom.
Chitkara’s EDUREFORM Curriculum
The EDUREFORM curriculum is designed to empower future incumbent secondary school teachers by training students to demonstrate critical, analytical and creative skills. As the labor market demands a shift from problem solving to problem analysis, students need to be trained in soft skills that serve as a foundation for performing tasks that cannot be easily accomplished with technologies such as AI.
With the EDUREFORM curriculum, teachers can be trained to create national best practices to support Indian national authorities in addressing societal challenges directly related to the 4th Industrial Revolution. The project also introduces a fully modernized academic teacher education program.
To ensure that EDUREFORM succeeds in its operational mission, a team of experts from Indian and European Universities work closely with Indian and European schools, with the assistance of an Indian analytics firm managing manpower development. is receiving This will enable the domestic workforce to meet the ever-changing demands of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Purpose of EDUREFORM in the Modern Classroom
EDUREFORM’s purpose is to raise awareness among prospective and current secondary school teachers in India and empower them to ultimately mitigate the expected social impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Here are some of the goals that this project plans to fully achieve so that a modern classroom can be developed.
- EDUREFORM enables prospective and current teachers to create the prerequisites for mitigating the negative impacts of the Fourth Industrial Revolution on the Indian workforce.
- The project also pilots activities in Indian secondary schools aimed at enhancing students’ analytical, critical and creative abilities.
- This project focuses on the gradual and sustained expansion of the EDUREFORM network as an open platform.
- EDUREFORM invests in developing parallel development activities.
- Encouraging creative, critical and analytical skills in all secondary school students in India can mitigate the impact of 4IR on the Indian labor market.
- The EDUREFORM project also focuses on inclusion and mainstream educational practices, specifically aimed at encouraging critical, analytical and creative thinking in secondary school students in India.
- EDUREFORM aims to be recognized as a national best practice for mitigating social challenges related to 4IR, while also focusing on academia and society at large.
- Finally, EDUREFORM will establish a new Indian-European joint initiative to follow up the parallel capacity-building activities that EDUREFORM is conducting. It focuses on the establishment of the Indo-European Alliance for Teacher Education.
Chitkara University is proud to be the coordinator of the EDUREFORM project, working with 10 other university partners in India and the European Union related to this project. At Chitkara, our focus is on empowering students with transformative educational approaches that push boundaries and prepare them for an ever-changing world. EDUREFORM is a 3-year project co-funded with the European Union’s Erasmus+ programme, through cultivating thinking and providing essential skills, to 4 Indian Universities, 4 European Universities and 2 Secondary Schools. It consists of one school and one SME school, and is in the field of education.
The purpose of EDUREFORM is to raise awareness among prospective and current secondary school teachers in India so that the expected social impact of 41R can be mitigated.
Chitkara’s commitment to excellence is further enhanced through a strategic partnership with EDUREFORM to ensure this tradition of success continues.
