NITI Aayog in partnership with Bharti Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Bharti Enterprises, launched Convoke 2021-22. Convoke is a National research Symposium that aims at addressing challenges in imparting education and strengthening its quality with a special focus on all teachers, educationists, heads of schools across India. Through Convoke they can now share their micro research papers. These research papers will be analyzed by a panel of Educationists. The shortlisted Research Papers will be presented during the ‘National Research Symposium’ scheduled in January 2022.
The event was chaired by Dr. Rajiv Kumar, Vice Chairman, NITI Aayog and attended by Shri Amitabh Kant, CEO, NITI Aayog, Dr. Prem Singh, Adviser (Education), NITI Aayog, Shri Rakesh Bharti Mittal, Co-Chairman, Bharti Foundation and Ms. Mamta Saikia, CEO, Bharti Foundation and also virtually attended by representatives of Ministry of Education, NIEPA, Officials of Education Departments/ SCERTs of all States/UTs.
Through this platform:
- School teachers/Principals of Government Schools and teachers of Bharti Foundation Network will be encouraged to use research-based solutions through a scientific approach and demonstrate their efforts at the grassroots level to improve learning outcomes.
- The National Policy on Education (NEP) 2020 also recognizes and recognizes teachers and teachers as the center of the learning process. It recommends that teachers be recognized for new approaches to teaching that improve learning outcomes in their classrooms.
- The NEP recommends developing platforms so that teachers can share ideas and best practices for wide dissemination and replication. For years, teachers have been coming up with innovative solutions to help students and even more during the lockdown.