Published: 24th Aug, 2023
Context
Recently, the final National Curriculum Framework (NCF) has been released by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT).
About the Proposed framework:
- Framed by: The NCF was drafted by the National steering committee headed by former Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), K. Kasturirangan.
- Key points:
- For languages:
- From now, Students in Classes 9 and 10 will need to learn three languages, of which at least two will be native to India.
- Classes 11 and 12, students will learn two languages, including one of Indian origin.
- Board Exams: The NCF states that all students will be allowed to take Board exams on at least two occasions during any given school year, with only the best score being retained.
- New Text books: It follows the lead of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, and gives assent for formulating new textbooks from Grades 3 to 12 under the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE).
- Number of Subjects: For students from Classes 9 to 12 has to study five mandatory subjects, with an option of adding one more subject.
- Now, the number of mandatory subjects for Classes 9 and 10 is seven and six for Classes 11 and 12.
- Optional subjects have been grouped in three parts in the NCF.
- The first optional group includes art education, physical education and vocational education.
- The second group includes Social Science, the Humanities, and interdisciplinary areas.
- The third group includes Science, Mathematics, and computational thinking.
- Shift to semester-based term: The NCF has recommended that in the long term, all Boards should change to semester or term-based systems.
- Now, there is no hard separation between academic and vocational subjects, or between Science, Social Science, Art, and Physical Education.
- For languages:
NCF from NEP 2020:
The NCF brings the aims and commitments of the NEP:
- This includes the full range of human capacities, values and dispositions that are aimed to be developed in school education.
- Pedagogy, practices, and culture must work in tandem to develop these, and move away from an overemphasis on memorization and content accumulation; in fact, content reduction is required to create space for such development.
- The 5+3+3+4 Curricular and Pedagogical structure of school education is reflected in the learning standards, the content, the pedagogy, and the assessment approaches.
- It is integrative and holistic with equal status to all subjects and learning domains from Math to Sports.
- It integrates vocational education in all schools, and there is integration across subjects while developing rigorous subject understanding and capacities.
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