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@article{196232,
        author = {Dr K S KANNAN},
        title = {NEP, 2020 AS A DRIVER FOR TRANS DISCIPLINARY LEARNING},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {12},
        number = {11},
        pages = {2835-2838},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=196232},
        abstract = {The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 marks a paradigm shift in Indian education by promoting holistic, flexible, and learner-centered approaches. One of its core strengths lies in advancing transdisciplinary learning, which transcends traditional subject boundaries and fosters integrated knowledge creation. Unlike multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary models, transdisciplinary learning emphasizes the fusion of disciplines to address real world challenges through creativity, collaboration, and critical thinking. NEP-2020 encourages this vision through provisions such as multidisciplinary institutions, flexible subject choices, experiential and skill-based pedagogy, and the integration of Indian knowledge systems with global perspectives. By doing so, it prepares learners to tackle complex issues like climate change, healthcare, sustainability, and digital transformation. While challenges such as faculty training, curriculum restructuring, and assessment reforms remain, NEP-2020 provides a robust framework for building a knowledge-driven society. Thus, the policy acts as a true driver of transdisciplinary learning, equipping students with 21st-century skills for innovation, problem-solving, and nation-building. Our educational system's assessment culture will change from summative and mainly testing rote memorization skills to more regular and formative, competency-based, learning-and-development-promoting, and higher-order skills-testing, including analysis, critical thinking, and conceptual clarity. The main goal of assessment is, in fact, to facilitate learning; it will assist both the teacher and the student, as well as the educational system as a whole, in optimizing learning and development for every student. This will be the fundamental idea behind evaluation at all educational levels. Introduce Transdisciplinary Learning (TDL), Learning that goes beyond individual subjects to integrate knowledge from multiple disciplines and encourages problem-solving, critical thinking, and real-world application.},
        keywords = {NEP-2020, transdisciplinary, Multidisciplinary, Holistic, SDG, DIKSHA},
        month = {April},
        }