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NCF (online assignment)
ASSIGNMENT
Topic: National
Curriculum Framework-2005
Submitted
by,
Akhila G Ashok
Class no:
1
KUCTE
Aryad
INDRODUCTION
The National
Curriculum Framework (NCF-2005) Is one of four National Curriculum Frameworks
published in 1975, 1988, 2000 and 2005 by the National Council of Educational
Research and Training NCERT in India. The document provides the framework for
making syllabi, textbooks and teaching practices with in the school education
programs in India. The NCF 2005 document draws its policy basis from earlier
government reports on education as learning without burden and national policy
of education 1986-1992 and focus group discussions. After wide ranging
deliberations 21 national focus group positions papers have been developed
under the aegis of NCF 2005. The state of art position purpose provided inputs
for formulation of NCF 2005.
The document
and its offshoot textbooks have come under different forms of reviews in the
press. It is draft document came under the criticisms from the Central Advisory
Board of Education (CABE). In February 2008 The Director Krishna Kumar in an
interview also discuss the challenges that are faced by the document.
The approach
and recommendations of NCF – 2005 are for the entire educational system. A
number of its recommendations, for e.g. focus on rural schools. Their syllabus
and textbooks based on it are being used by all the CBSC schools, but NCF based
material is also being used in many state schools.
MAIN FEATURES OF THE NCF 2005
The document
is divided into following areas
1. Perspective
2. Learning and knowledge
3. Curriculum areas, school stages and
assessment
4. School and classroom environment
5. Systematic reforms
6. Mother tongue as a medium of
instructions
7. Free development
8. Availability of resources
9. MAKING OF NCF 2005
1
Need
of drafting NCF 2005
2 Procedure of making of NCF 2005
NEED OF NCF 2005
1. The school system is characterized by
an inflexibility that make it resistant to change
2. Learning has become an isolated
activity, which doesn’t encourage children to link knowledge with their lives
in any organic or vital way
3. Schools promote a regime of thought
that discourage creative thinking and insights
4. What is presented and transmitted in
the name of learning in schools by passes vital dimensions of the human capacity to create new knowledge
5. The ‘Future’ of the child has taken
centre stage to the near exclusion of the child ‘prevent’, which is determined
to the wellbeing of the child as well as the society and the nation
AIMS OF EDUCATION
1. Independence of thoughts and
action
2.
Learning to respond to new situations flexibly and creativity
3.
Pre-disposition for participation in democratic process and social
change
4.
Empower all children to learn
PERSPECTIVE
OF NCF
1. Children learn in a variety of ways
2. Developing capacity for abstract
thinking reflection and work are most important aspects of learning
3. Child as a ”Critical learner” and
constructor of knowledge
4. Different All children are
motivated and capable of learning
5. types of knowledge as embodied in the
traditional curriculum in the world outside
the school
CURRICULUM
AREAS OF NCF
TRADITIONAL OTHER ARES
Mathematics
Art education
Language
Health & physical education
Science
Education for peace
Social science
Habitat & learning
NCF
LANGUAGE
1. Three language formulation reaffirmed
importance of home language
2. Multilingualism as a resource
3. English as SUBJECT and English as MEDIUM
CONCLUSION
National
curriculum framework (NCF 2005) is one of the four national curriculum
frameworks published in 1975, 1988, 2000 and 2005 by the national council of
education research and training in India.
Curriculum
framework is the totality of experiences that the learner receives from inside
and outside classrooms. According to Cunningham ‘curriculum is a tool, in the hands
of an artist (teacher), to mould his materials (students), according to his
ideals (objectives), in his studio (classroom). ‘
On 1988 the
national council of educational research and training developed. The national
curriculum for elementary and secondary education: A frame work; in responds to
the NPE, 1986. The revolutionary changes brought about by the IT macerated
radical changes in the school curriculum to effectively meet with the new
challenges. According to NCERT prepared the NCF in 2000.
The
following are the 21 themes discussed in the curriculum framework.
Ø Aims of education
Ø Systematic reforms for curriculum
change
Ø teaching of Indian language
Ø Teaching of English
Ø Teaching of Mathematics
Ø Teaching of Social science
Ø Habitat and learning
Ø Art, Music, Dance and Theatre
Ø Heritage craft
Ø Work and Education
Ø Health and Physical education
Ø Education technology
Ø Early childhood education
Ø Problems of SC/ST children
Ø Gender issues in education
Ø Education and Peace
Ø Education of groups with special
needs
Ø Curriculum, Syllabus and textbooks
Ø Teacher education for curriculum,
renewal and examination reforms
REFERENCE
2. Educational policy in India-1922 and
review 2000-2005 NCF:- J.C.Agarwal
3. Modern Indian education curriculum
framework:- J.C.Agarwal
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