EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING-THE PEDAGOGICAL APPROACH OF NEP 2020

Education is the fundamental right of every child. It plays very important role in the growth and development of
the nation and its citizens. After 34 years India is witnessing a change in the way we study, in the form of NEP
2020. It has proposed number of changes in the field of education one of which includes adopting experiential
learning at all stages. Today experiential learning has become an essential method in all innovative pedagogical
practices as it holistically strives to shift the child from rote learning and memorization to learning by doing
through experience and activity. Future teachers need to be acquainted with this modern teaching methodology.
Keeping this in mind a study is conducted on use of this modern approach during the school teaching practice.
The feedback was taken in the form of open-ended questions from the sample of 48 teacher trainees of a B.Ed.
college and data collected is analysed qualitatively to find out the outcomes of experiential learning and
challenges faced in using it.