Education 5.0 and Sustainable Development

Abstract

Education is a key to national development. It not only opens doors of new opportunities but also empowers the individual with knowledge and wisdom to face challenges and solve various problems. Education helps in the transmission of culture, social upliftment, and political integration. With new opportunities, there come new challenges where education helps in dealing with such issues. Modern Education aims at helping students to acquire various skills like critical thinking, creative thinking, communication skills, problem-solving skills and lifelong learning. The education framework has changed from the Education 1.0 level to the present Education 5.0. This framework focuses on the needs of the learner, the demand of society and different teaching strategies and methods. In Education 1.0 the teacher taught within the confines of the physical four-walled classroom. No technology was used, and the teacher acted as an autocratic leader. It transformed into the present Education 5.0 level slowly but steadily due to the requirements of the learner, the changing needs of society and the adoption of various teaching approaches. Dr. A.P.J. Abul Kalam rightly said that Education is the holistic development of individuals at all level be it spiritual, academic, physical or psychological. The learner changed after the COVID-19 pandemic and the world needed sustainable development which shifted the paradigm from technology integration in Education to the involvement of various human skills like empathy, sharing, values etc. The present paper thus explores Education 5.0 for Sustainable Development.