Towards human resource-driven economic models for India and other developing nations

 

Towards human resource-driven economic models for India and other developing nations

Sujay Rao Mandavilli

Human Resources in the context of national development refers to the management of an nations most valuable asset, namely its people. The ministry responsible for this function oversees the optimization of  human resources in the nation, along with continuous and comprehensive skill development. This has become particularly important since the emergence of the orange economy, and the emergence of white collar workers a couple of decades ago, replacing some types of blue collar workers, or existing in parallel with them. We also have skilled labour, and super-specialized skilled labour nowadays, with a high degree of technical and non-technical career specialization.  The Human resource development ministry in a nation (HRD ministry) must therefore cultivate employees' skills, knowledge, and abilities to enhance individual, group, and national competitiveness. Human resource development also naturally sets apart successful nations from less successful ones, and is often a make or break paradigm. HRD ministries must identify specific skill requirements and skills gaps in populations, and design and implement targeted interventions like training programs, superior education systems, mentorship, off and on the job training or coaching. The goal of the above exercise would be to create a continuous, planned development process that benefits both the nation and its people immensely and multidimensionally.

Our papers and publications on pedagogy

The following are the list of our papers and publications on pedagogy. As such, we request our readers to read them in detail.  These would explain what we propose to implement, and how we propose to implement it.

1.       Intercalating a multi-barreled approach to educational and pedagogical reform: A brief summation of our publications on pedagogy IJISRT 2025:  July

2.       Embracing “Functionalism” in pedagogical theory: Why we may eventually need to justify every component of pedagogical and course content SSRN 2025:  January

3.       Rebooting Pedagogy and Education systems for the Twenty-first Century: Why we need course-corrections immediately Google Books. 2024

4.        Unleashing the potential of the ‘Sociology of Science’: Capitalizing on the power of science to usher in social, cultural and intellectual revolutions across the world, and lay the foundations of twenty-first century pedagogy, ELK Asia Pacific journal of social sciences, 2021

5.       Introducing Anthropological Pedagogy as a Core Component of Twenty-first Century Anthropology: The Role of Anthropological Pedagogy in the fulfilment of Anthropological and Sociological objectives ELK Asia Pacific Journal of Social Sciences 2018

Readers are requested to read our papers and publications on pedagogy completely, fully and thoroughly. We cannot simply repeat them a large number of times in multiple publications or blog posts. In these papers, we had discussed functionalism in education, theories of pedagogical content, AI in education, automation of education in the long term, etc. We had also discussed the need to teach logic and reasoning, scientific method, the ability to distinguish between science and pseudoscience, critical thinking skills, creative and lateral thinking skills, time and space encapsulation, etc. We had also discussed teacher training, students’ mind-orientation, comprehensive 360 degree student evaluation, cultural remediation, bridging of gaps among socioeconomic and sociocultural groups, physical fitness, career guidance as applicable, better school infrastructure including solar power generation, etc. Again, we beseech our readers to go through our paper fully- planners must implement them in stages over the course of the next couple of years. States must also draft their own education plans – this can lead to competitive rivalry, and will set apart successful states from less successful ones.  This is indeed the only mechanism by means of which developing countries will be able to catch up with developed ones.