Changing trends in national curriculam frame work

1. ON LINE ASSIGNMENT
CHANGING TRENDS IN
NATIONAL CURRICULAM
FRAME WORK
SANTHOSH KUMAR V
NATURAL SCIENCE
REGISTER NO.13386018
ST,THOMAS COLLEGE TRIVANDRUM
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2. CHANGING TRENDS IN NATIONAL CURRICULUM FRAME WORK
`By education,I mean an all round drawing out of the best in child and man,body,mind and spirit.
(Gandhiji)
INTRODUCTION
Education is a liberating force and no person/ nation can progress with out education. So India has
given prime importance to education.Ancient India had given a great contribution to education. We had
world renowned ancient universities like Nalanda,Taxila etc. Our ancient scriptures were treasures of
knowledge. After Independence ,the democratic government appointed many committees ,
commissions, and expert panels to propose a National Education System.The constitution of India also
have emphasized to provide free and compulsory education to all children between the age of 6-14
years. Now the Right to Education became one of the part of fundamental rights under constituition.
Since national development and all round development and prosperity of citizen possible only through
education, National Policy on Education and National Curriculum Frame Work has been formulated
and implemented accordingly.
Traditionally our education system was teacher centred and loaded with text books.
Believed that teacher is the person assigned to teaching only. Following the philosophical approaches
developed world wide including India, our educational policies tend to changing accordingly. National
Curriculum Frame works reflected this trend . Inspite of recommendations of the National Policies on
Education 1986, the school education went on by high stake examination based on information loaded
text books.Eventhough National Policies onEducation 1986 and Programme Of Action(POA 1992) was
quite contradictory both emphasized a child centred approach to promote universal enrollment and
universal retention of children up to 14 yrs of age and substantial improvement in the quality of
education in the school.The POA further eloborated on this vision of NPE by emphasizing
relevance,flexibility,and quality as characteristic of the NationalCurriculumFramework. Thus both these
documents envisioned National CurriculumFramework as means of modernizing the system of
education. Here I am investigating how far these recommendations put into practice and what are the
changes taking place in our educational system.
PROBLEM AREA IDENTIFIED
1)Traditionally our education system and curriculum were Subject-centred
2)Knowledge can only imparted from text books and is an overloaded packaged knowledge.
3)Knowledge acquisition and marks as a way of judging competence in the subject area.
4)Instead of integrate with in the curriculum so called extracurricular activities such as arts,sports,crafts
etc were sidelined.

3. 5)work and practical intelligences have been completely neglected.
6)subject areas tend to become water tight compartment and no inter-disciplinary approach
7)Neglected children’s innate ability of spirit of enquiry.
8)Neglected childrens on ability to construct knowledge and explore novel ways of knowing.
9)promoted rote learning and mechanical memorization.
10) The knowledge was segregated from society and no provision for practical application of knowledge.
NEW TRENDS & CHANGES
CONSTRUCTIVISM
The National Curriculum Framework considered education in the constructivist perspective,
Learning is a process of the construction of Knowledge.Learners actively construct their own knowledge
by connecting new ideas to existing ideas on the basis of materials/activities presented to them.The
structuring and restructuring of ideas are essential features as the learners progress in learning.
LINKING WITH PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE
The NCF emphasized the significance of contextualizing education.This is not only because the local
environment and the childs own experiences are the best entry points into the study of disciplines of
knowledge, but but more so because the aim of knowledge is to connect with the world.It is not means
to an end but both means and end.This does not require us to reduce knowledge to functional and
immediately relevant,but to realize its dynamism by connecting with world through it .
INTER-DISCIPLINARY & MULTY-DISCIPLINARY APPROACH
The NCF proposed making connections across disciplines and bringing out the interrelatedness of
knowledge.This opened new thinking and widened the horizon of knowledge.
SPIRIT OF ENQUIRY
John Dewy stated that the spirit of enquiry is innate in children.The NCF promoted and included ways to
inculcate the spirit of enquiry among childrens,promote scientific temper and the provisional nature of
truth.Also helps to observation and problem solving.
CHILD CENTRIC
The curriculum is child centred and all the activities proposed in relation with the understanding level of
learner.The knowledge is constructed by the learner itself.The role of the teacher from sole agent of
teaching get reduced. Teacher changes into the role of scaffolder . Previosly the teacher is at the centre
stage and his decision is final in all the teaching _learning activities. But now the autonomy of the
learner is accepted and learners decision get promoted.Learning process and syllabus tend to be more

4. flexible. Formerly learning is considered as passive process and child has little or no role, now the child
has active participation in the construction of knowledge and all the learning experience.
ROLE OF TEACHER
The role of the teacher is changed to a new dimension. He became a facilitator and supporter to
children. He is supposed to be arrange good and standard learning condition for effective learning. He
encourages learner and works behind the scene. Formerly the teacher had to provide fixed knowledge
from the text book and he adjudged the students through oral or written examination. Now he has to
pave the ways to students to walk beyond the text books and the method of evaluation and duty
thereof increased
EVALUATION SYSTEM
The evaluation of student is formerly done only through examination, this received wider criticisms. The
aim of education is the all round development of a child, but marking system never competent enough
to evaluate these development. So NCF proposes a continuous and comprehensive evaluation which
evaluate both scholastic and non scholastic skills. It is widely accepted and found to be effective.
SCIENCE EDUCATION
Man was very curious to observe the wonder of nature and natural phenomena, this created scientific
attitude and scientific knowledge and revolutionized the human history.Science education served the
very purpose of creating more and more science aspirant and academic arena.Thus these human
endeavour paved the way to modern science and many new branches of science emerged out.Science is
a progressive forward looking ,dyanamic and expanding body of knowledge.Science can truly a
liberating role,helping people escape from viscious cycle of poverty,ignorance and superstition.People
today are faced with an increasingly fast changing world where the mostimportant skills are
flexibility,innovation and creativity.These different imperatives have to be kept in in mind in shaping
science education.
Good science education is true to the child true to life and true to science.This simple observation leads
to the following basic criteria of validity of science curriculum
1)Cognitive validity
2)Content Validity
3)Process validity
4)Historical validity
5)Environmental validity

5. 6Ethical validity
LEARNING RESOURCES
1)Improved Text Books
2)Subject Dictionaries
3)Supplementary Books
4)Work Books
5)Extra Reading
6)Atlases and Maps
7)Manuals
CONCLUSION
Though on first observation we can see several changes in the curriculum frame work, up on
detailed assessment we can see there is a trancient and continuous change in the new trends. Our
education system though novel in out look it is struggling to effective implementation.There is an
urgent need to revamp our educational system to achieve national goal soon as possible.The ideals
envisaged by NCF give us ray of hope and it is our duty to upheld the ideals and do best for our nation.
REFERENCE
1)www.ncert.nic.in/rightside/links/nc_ framework .htm
2) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Curriculum_Framework_(NCF_2005
3) www.greenteacher.org/

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