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Synergistic Role of Education in India of the 21st Century arts, religion, entertainment, advancements in the fields of science and technology and myriad other factors.
Education in the modern age of rapid changes including the powerful change agent of globalization at all levels, thus, has got a new role to play shaping the personality of the learner and its interaction with other domains like society and environment. It is the role as a synergizing agent for the chief three domains of the personality and life of the learner. They are as follows. 1. The personal, private domain of life of the individual learner is
motivated by a spectrum of needs of development. Abraham Maslow, the renowned American psychologist, through his famous pyramid of hierarchy of basic needs, has listed five fundamental needs that impel the individual learner to undertake his learning adventure. They are as under :: (a) Physical needs of existence like food, nutrition, shelter, health,
exercise, rest, medication etc. (b) Security needs like freedom from danger, fear, hazards etc. (c) Social needs like family life, friendship, community life, sense of
affection, of acceptance and belonging. Ego needs like feeling of worth and self-importance, leadership, position of power etc. Selfactualisation needs including desire for personal fulfillment, realization of one's potential, satisfaction of one's aspirations and
expectations - moral, spiritual and even divine. The social domain in which the learner individual lives, operates, and enjoys the fruit of his involvement in life and its myriad other pursuits
and activities. 3. The global, general, environmental domain including nature on one
hand, and on the other, the vast manmade environment of the world all around.
The triple synergy to be developed, nurtured and sustained through a comprehensive, relevant and competent educational input is a huge task modern education has to perform at all levels of education, primary, secondary, higher and professional special type of education.
The Nature of Synergy: As a rule, every system, be it a biological one, or a physical one or a social one or whatever it be, must be a synthesized, harmonized, integrated and balanced entity by itself. Take for example, the human personality of a student. It consists of various parts and constituents like the body, mind, spirit, soul, attitudes, beliefs, habits etc. All these
