Learning Through Conversations - The Rishi Way

Abstract

As the dynamics of offline and online classrooms are evolving, ensuring student engagement and learning has become paramount and challenging. Research into the Vedic period literature indicates that the teaching method used by our ancient Indian Rishis emphasized conversations or conversation-based learning, thereby not just engaging learners actively but can also imparting knowledge of the content with the additional attributes of learning. The paper shall present the role of conversations in complimenting learner’s engagement and the benefits of conversation-based learning. Through examples from ancient literature, the article also looks at this approach of learning from the perspective of ancient Rishis who used it in a much more comprehensive way. The interesting observation from these examples is the additional attributes of learning like - interdisciplinary perspective, creative outlook, learning through relatable examples etc. which one can derive besides the resolution of the query.