This handbook has been developed after completing the rigorous process of capacity building of teachers teaching Classes VI-VIII (Middle Stage) on the Art Integrated Learning' model of experiential pedagogy across the country. During its journey since inception, All has been subjected to various researches on the process of its implementation and effectivity. It is a model designed to promote experiential learning where every learner is provided with opportunity to undergo an art experience (in visual or performing arts) to understand and learn different concepts/subjects.
AIL after completing the journey of successful implementation in the seventeen states of different regions was incorporated as pedagogy for competency based learning in the Block-level research project of NCERT in the five regions of the country in collaboration with Regional Institute of Education (RIE) Ajmer (Rajasthan), Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh), Bhubaneswar (Odisha), NERIE Shillong (Meghalaya) and Mysuru (Karnataka).
The All has been included as an important part of NISHTHA (National Initiative for School Heads and Teachers Holistic Advancement), an initiative of Department of School Education and Literacy, MoE, to prepare teachers of different stage (including middle stage) for the experiential and competency based teaching-learning. The Department of Education in Arts and Aesthetics, NCERT, developed the capacity building training modules and the guidelines for effective implementation of the AIL in December, 2019. The digital copy as well as hard copy of the AlL guidelines have been circulated for the use of different stakeholders across the country and received active feedback on its positive effects on improving the learning process.
Following the process of capacity building of all teachers on All, there was a growing need for the teachers handbook that could facilitate teachers in planning and organising art integrated learning in their classroom. The National Educational Policy 2020, also recommends 'Art Integrated Education' as pedagogy, strongly. It suggests that, "Art-integration is a cross-curricular pedagogical approach that utilizes various aspects and forms of art and culture as the basis for learning of concepts across subjects. As a part of the thrust on experiential learning, art-integrated education will be embedded in classroom transactions not only for creating joyful classrooms, but also for imbibing the Indian ethos through integration of Indian art and culture in the teaching and learning process at every level. This art-integrated approach will strengthen the linkages between education and culture. With this handbook, we aim to increase the outreach and accessibility of All as pedagogy to all teachers (subject teachers including art teachers and health education teachers) of the middle stage in the country.
Art Integrated Learning is an innovative and constructivist learning approach which is based on learning through the arts' and 'with the arts Through art integration, students do engage in different art experiences and construct personal meaning through their learning. Art experiences provide every learner with the needed opportunity and freedom to observe, imagine, explore, create, recreate and express. This resonates with the experiential learning approach where teachers use different art experiences, both in visual (drawing and painting, clay modelling, pottery, paper crafts, mask and puppet making, heritage crafts, etc.) and performing arts (music, dance, theatre, puppetry etc.) to teach and learn a variety of academic concepts and subjects in a more engaging and joyful way.
The National Education Policy 2020 emphasises that the curriculum and its pedagogy should provide experience which makes learning holistic, integrated, enjoyable and engaging. Realising the importance of art integration for providing experiential learning, NEP 2020 recommends the use of hands-on learning and arts integrated education as standard pedagogy within all subjects and with explorations of relations among different subjects. NEP 2020 states that "As, a part of the thrust on experiential learning. art-integrated education will be embedded in classroom transactions not only for creating joyful classrooms, but also for imbibing the Indian ethos through integration of Indian art and culture in the teaching and learning process at every level". In view of NEP 2020's recommendations on art integrated education and NCERT's experience on implementation of the Art Integrated Learning as pedagogy, this handbook for the teachers' teaching at Middle Stage of school education has been developed.
The present handbook is a successive step to the AIL Guidelines for elementary stage published in the year 2019. The handbook has been designed to facilitate teachers of the Middle Stage on integration of arts in the teaching learning of their subjects. It provides conceptual clarity and key strategies of its effective implementation. The handbook encompasses an understanding of certain concepts of All in the form of FAQs and contains stage specific exemplars, which are designed keeping in view the competencies and learning outcomes of the subjects.
The handbook intends to broaden the reach and accessibility of AIL as a pedagogy to all teachers (subject teachers including art and health education teachers) of Middle Stage and in the successful implementation of AIL pedagogy to make learning joyful, experiential and holistic.
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