The growth of National Curriculum Framework (NCF) for varsity schooling is a large decentralised session train proper from villages and cities to states and Union ministries, National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) officers stated on Tuesday. In a latest growth, the NCERT has eliminated parts concerning the 2002 Gujarat riots, Emergency, Cold War, Naxalite motion and Mughal courts from its class 12 textbooks as a part of its “syllabus rationalisation” train, triggering allegations that the train is ideologically pushed.
“The development of NCF for School Education is a huge consultative exercise, not limited in any way, to the national level. In fact, for the first time, it is based on a bottom-up and paperless approach, rather than a top down approach,” a senior NCERT official stated.
He additional added that every state has arrange 25 State Focus Groups with its personal set of consultants on key areas, akin to pedagogy, evaluation, environmental research, inclusion, information of India, numerous disciplines like language, social sciences, science, arithmetic, and expertise.
Initially, the NCERT has cited “overlapping” and “irrelevant” as causes for dropping these parts from the syllabus. The NCERT has obtained inputs from 27 states within the type of 608 place papers from every of their State Focus Groups. These will feed into the NCF, in response to the official.
“At least 3,000 mobile App-based surveys are being conducted by each state and UT of grassroots-level stakeholders such as teachers, anganwadi workers, local communities and trades persons. Approximately 8,391 surveyors were appointed by states and UTs for this. NCERT has already received survey reports of 1.3 lakh stakeholders so far,” the official stated.
In class 12 political science textbook, pages on the subject ‘Gujarat Riots’ will likely be excluded from the chapter titled ‘Recent Developments in Indian Politics’. The point out of the National Human Rights Commission report on the 2002 violence and the “raj dharma” comment by the then prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee have been dropped from the textbook.
In addition, chapters on Mughal courts in a historical past textbook, a poem on the Dalit motion and a chapter on the Cold War, are among the many exclusions from the political science textbook. In class 10, the excluded chapters included verses of poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz within the ‘Religion, Communalism and Politics – Communalism, Secular State’ part of the textbook ‘Democratic Politics II’.
Also, chapters titled ‘Democracy and Diversity’, ‘Popular Struggle and movements’ and ‘Challenges to Democracy’ have been dropped.
“All ministries of the government of India have been requested to give their inputs too. NCERT has already conducted two rounds of workshops with some ministries and started receiving inputs,” the official stated.
The official additional defined that about 25 National Focus Groups have been fashioned by the NCERT, every with nearly 8-10 members, for giving inputs within the type of place papers on related themes as these being given by states and UTs.
“Therefore, these 25 papers will also be part of the total 608 position papers that will be examined for development of NCF. This entire process is paperless and a special portal has been designed by the NCERT to receive these detailed inputs from all parts of the country, and from all categories of stakeholders,” the official stated.
“National Curriculum is being developed with a 360-degree decentralised consultation process right from villages/city-level to districts to states and Union ministries. Technology is being leveraged to make the consultation process wider. States and UTs are playing a major role in the curriculum development process, making it an example of cooperative federalism,” he stated.
The NCF has been revised 4 occasions up to now – in 1975, 1988, 2000 and 2005. The new revision would be the fifth of the framework.
With inputs from PTI.
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