Pre-Draft Of Nationwide 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 comprise 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 group, however ought to be realistically rooted within the current, since previous is gone endlessly and the long run is but to come back.

The doc emphasizes on the “Rootedness in India” because it was articulated within the Nationwide Schooling Coverage (NEP 2020), after which goes on easy methods to obtain it afterwards. The doc tries to make clear the actual which means of “Rootedness in India” by giving some illustrations. Nevertheless, rather than clarifying, it additional complicates the matter leaving many issues obscure that’s probably to be misunderstood by academics themselves and will turn into harmful for growth of a kid in fashionable context.

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

Bodily schooling is among the themes beneath which it mentions even about bullock and chariot racing and cube video games, which can’t be defended in fashionable 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 function of the bodily schooling that not solely promotes private well being of the youngsters however prepares them to take the long run challenges in actual life conditions, equivalent to throughout disasters, each pure or man-made. How, can then bullock and chariot racing is more likely to serve our kids sooner or later?

The bodily schooling additionally included Yoga, maybe however not clearly stated, that has been introduced merely as an train. It recommends common apply of yoga from the Center Stage onwards to construct respiratory strategies, energy, 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, equivalent 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, for the reason that curriculum makers completely ignored Jainism, that teaches simply the alternative “Ayoga”.

The one other thematical self-discipline is Arts and the method 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 way of totally different levels, college students will develop data of those parts 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 advanced all through the ages. No pupil in India may be discovered with a monocultural thoughts, and subsequently, they have to not be enforced to return to solely the traditional dominant tradition, solely to search out them in battle with the modern tradition. Puppetery, pottery, basketry, people songs and dance and so forth and such conventional actions can’t fulfill the necessity of a multicultural fashionable thoughts of a pupil, who should not be lower from the fashionable days actuality by way of artwork and tradition. The framework neither talks in regards to the composite tradition wherein a contemporary pupil lives nor tries to include apart from the fashionable dominant Hindu tradition and custom. Alienation of scholars from the modern actuality can’t be the fitting schooling.

As for the language is anxious, it has additionally been emphasised that educating in mom language has essential function to play in conserving 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 stated than achieved since India is a rustic with a wealthy and numerous 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 should be famous that our college students have already multilingual thoughts due to unfold of radio, tv, web, cellular and so forth. Furthermore, a pupil has probably the most linguistic expertise on the age of seven, after which it’s tough for them to study 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 finally alienate the person college students from different communities, which might be unhealthy.

Even in arithmetic, the framework talks a lot in regards to 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 that could be not appropriate for this age.

Comparable is the case with science. The framework emphasize of Indian sciences, which itself deviate from purity of the self-discipline itself no matter their homeland.

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 fashionable India. The framework betrays the Indian dream of making a bias free society by its schooling system. (IPA Service)

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