Pre-Draft Of National Curriculum Framework Objectionable On Many Counts

By Dr. Gyan Pathak

The pre-draft of the Nationwide Curriculum Framework for College Schooling 2023 ready by the Nationwide Steering Committee for Nationwide Curriculum Frameworks and launched by the Union Ministry of schooling is objectionable in a number of counts together with vagueness and contradictions that they include in themselves. A contemporary schooling system should not be primarily based on the nostalgia of the previous and the dream of the way forward for some communal forces within the dominant neighborhood, however ought to be realistically rooted within the current, since previous is gone endlessly and the long run is but to return.

The doc emphasizes on the “Rootedness in India” because it was articulated within the Nationwide Schooling Coverage (NEP 2020), after which goes on how you can obtain it afterwards. The doc tries to make clear the actual which means of “Rootedness in India” by giving some illustrations. Nevertheless, instead of clarifying, it additional complicates the matter leaving many issues imprecise that’s most certainly to be misunderstood by academics themselves and will change into harmful for improvement of a kid in trendy context.

The whole college schooling has been divided in levels within the NEP 2020 – the Foundational, Preparatory, Center, and Secondary. Although it emphasizes studying in little one’s context, each native and nationwide, it recommends issues that can’t be acceptable.

Bodily schooling is likely one of the themes underneath which it mentions even about bullock and chariot racing and cube video games, which can’t be defended in trendy native and nationwide context. Sports activities and bodily actions are an inseparable a part of our tradition it says betraying the ignorance of the very goal of the bodily schooling that not solely promotes private well being of the kids however prepares them to take the long run challenges in actual life conditions, corresponding to throughout disasters, each pure or man-made. How, can then bullock and chariot racing is more likely to serve our youngsters sooner or later?

The bodily schooling additionally included Yoga, maybe however not clearly mentioned, that has been introduced merely as an train. It recommends common apply of yoga from the Center Stage onwards to construct respiration methods, power, flexibility, and endurance. If the which means of Yoga is restricted as a easy train, it really denigrates the actual which means of Yoga as instructed within the historical Indian sacred texts, corresponding to Patanjali Yogasutra, or as preached by the Lord Krishran within the Srimadbhagvad Gita that claims about Karma, Bhakti, Sankhya Yogas and so forth. The time period Yoga is thus used as a deceptive phrase solely to seize the bulk Hindu creativeness and has nothing to do with promotion of the traditional heritage of Yoga system. Furthermore, it’s sectarian, because the curriculum makers completely ignored Jainism, that teaches simply the alternative “Ayoga”.

The one other thematical self-discipline is Arts and the strategy to Artwork Schooling within the Nationwide Curriculum Framework is drawn from historical Indian texts just like the Natayshastra, Abhinaya Darpanam, Shilpashastra, Vaastushastra, and Chitrasutra which have codified the structured the weather, strategies, and aesthetic ideas of arts. By means of totally different levels, college students will develop information of those components and ideas and a vocabulary of the humanities used to explain and focus on artworks and their processes, it says. For examples sruti, naada, raaga, taala, laya, bhaava, alankar, nritta, natya, pramaana, saahitya, gamak, meend, rasa.

That is an outdated idea since, it doesn’t acknowledge even multicultural thoughts of the fashionable inhabitants that has been developed all through the ages. No scholar in India may be discovered with a monocultural thoughts, and due to this fact, they need to not be enforced to return to solely the traditional dominant tradition, solely to seek out them in battle with the up to date tradition. Puppetery, pottery, basketry, people songs and dance and so forth and such conventional actions can’t fulfill the necessity of a multicultural trendy thoughts of a scholar, who should not be reduce from the fashionable days actuality when it comes to artwork and tradition. The framework neither talks concerning the composite tradition during which a contemporary scholar lives nor tries to include aside from the fashionable dominant Hindu tradition and custom. Alienation of scholars from the up to date actuality can’t be the correct schooling.

As for the language is anxious, it has additionally been emphasised that instructing in mom language has essential function to play in holding college students rooted to their nation, because it permits people to attach with their tradition, heritage, and their place in society. At foundational stage college students are alleged to be taught in regional language, whereas later two different languages are meant to be taught. It’s simpler mentioned than executed since India is a rustic with a wealthy and various linguistic heritage, with over 19,500 languages and dialects spoken throughout the nation. It isn’t clear how studying materials may be purchased out and correct academics are to be discovered. It have to be famous that our college students have already multilingual thoughts due to unfold of radio, tv, web, cell and so forth. Furthermore, a scholar has probably the most linguistic expertise on the age of seven, after which it’s tough for them to be taught different languages. Publicity of just one language in class might hurt their studying different languages in later days.

The nation that goals for “Vasudhaiva Kutumakam” (the entire world is a household) should not attempt to impose the dominant tradition and it bias, together with the bias of nationalism, which might in the end alienate the person college students from different communities, which might be unhealthy.

Even in arithmetic, the framework talks a lot concerning the historical arithmetic of India and contributions of historical Indian mathematicians. The Nationwide framework admits that it makes a deliberate effort to introduce college students to those main contributions. It means historical past of Indian arithmetic needs to be taught at college stage which may be not appropriate for this age.

Related is the case with science. The framework emphasize of Indian sciences, which itself deviate from purity of the self-discipline itself regardless of their native land.

Most debatable theme is social science. The framework proposes to show college students the significance of being an Indian (Bharatiya). It will be taught not solely the traditional glory of India and its historic underpinning ensuing into trendy India. The framework betrays the Indian dream of making a bias free society via its schooling system. (IPA Service)

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