National Steering Committee set up under the chairmanship of Dr.yashpal

NSC comprised 35 members including scholars, principals and teachers, NGO representatives and NCERT faculty

NSC supported by 21 National Focus Groups to prepare well researched Position Papers

NPE (1986),& POA(1992) given a role to NCERT to prepare and pramote NCF2005

NCF DRAFTING COMMITTEE

The school system is characterized by an inflexibility that makes it resistant to change;

Learning has become an isolated activity, which does not encourage children to link knowledge with their lives in any organic or vital way;

The “future” of the child has taken centre stage to the near exclusion of the child’s “present” , which is detrimental to the well-being of the child as well as the society & the nation.

Distortion of Aims of Education(Learning has become a source of burden and stress for children)

Textbooks/Workbooks

Information Overload

Incomprehension

Tests and Examinations

Problem of Curriculum Load Joyless learning

Examination system

Textbook as the ‘Truth’

Structure of syllabus

Language Textbooks

Starting Early

Learning

and

Knowledge

(Were she to fly she would bring tidings from across the infinite skies;

Were you to make her fly, she would but confine herself to sitting on the rooftop)

Learning and Knowledge Highlights the value of interaction with:

environment,

peers,

older people to enhance learning; grandpa

Learning tasks must be designed to enable children to seek out knowledge from sites other than textbooks.

Need therefore to move away from the ‘Herbartian’ lesson plan to preparing plans and activities that challenge children to think and try out what they are learning.

NCF CURRICULUM AREAS

Traditional

Mathematics

Language

Science

Social Sciences

Other Areas

Art Education

Health & Physical Education

Education for Peace

Habitat & Learning

Udega to saaton aasmaano ki khabar le aayega.

Udaaoge to chhat pe jaakar baith jayega.

(Were she to fly she would bring tidings from across the infinite skies;

Were you to make her fly, she would but confine herself to sitting on the rooftop)

School and classroom environment

NCF-Aims of Education(Based on the Constitutions’ Vision of India)

Independence of thought and action

Learning to respond to new situations flexibly and creatively

Pre-disposition for participation in democratic process and social change

Empower all children to learn