2 "Shaping the Future of Education ~ Effective Recruitment of Educators"

Recruitment strategies are ever evolving topic of discussion in today's era, while the same has moved through various stages in new age and traditional industries across the world including India, it is still in the nascent stages of evolution in the Education industry/sector.

- By Meeta Johari

Thus, I thought of drawing attention to this very crucial and important area of focus in the age when we are talking about use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning across in almost all core processes.

In order to understand, ‘Why’ we are a slow evolving sector in adopting new age ‘Recruitment’ practices, it is important to understand the evolution of ‘teaching as a profession’ considering we intend to understand the growth in ‘Education’ as a sector. I have distributed this concept into two broad categories :

Evolution of Teaching as a profession in India:

Teaching was considered as a humble profession, it started in ancient times with the emergence of Guru-Shishya Parampara which earmarks an era where teachers were considered as spiritual and intellectual guides, imparting knowledge in ashrams and gurukul. The teachers (gurus) were imparting knowledge through mainly oral recitation and guiding their Shishya (student). During this period the subjects taught were mainly Vedas, Mathematics, Astronomy, Philosophy and Arts. This was an era when education was not sought by all, nor available so easily. Education was for the classes or those who wanted to learn and who were accepted by the Guru's as Shishya.

Later due to Islamic rule, the influence of madrasas and maktabs became more prominent. The subjects taught were theology, logic, philosophy, medicine and Persian literature. The focus was on religious learning during this phase. Considering the focus was on religious learning, the clerics became very important teachers.