Wisdom Meets Curriculum: Integrating Indic Pedagogy into Contemporary Classroom Practice

In modern education, there are issues of rote learning, lack of value orientation, disengagement of learners and socio-emotional stress. It is a conceptual qualitative study that explores relevance of Indic pedagogy to modern day curriculum design and classroom praxis. Using thematic analysis of available literature, the research arrives at the main Indic principles: Purnatva (whole-person development), Anubhava (experience learning), Dharma (value education), Swadhyaya (reflection), Guru-Shishya (mentorship), and Lokavidya (contextual learning). Based on these themes, this study postulates the Modern Indic Pedagogy Curriculum Framework (MIPCF), a five-layered model that incorporates philosophy, pedagogy, curriculum, practice and assessment. The framework proposes a secular, learner-centered, and value-integrated model, which is consistent with the current educational demands and National Education Policy 2020.