Under the Ministry of Education, NCERT on August 23, 2023, introduced a new National Curriculum Framework (NCF) for school education in India. The new curriculum replaced its 2005 curriculum. All State Councils for Educational Research and Training (SCERT) and District Institutes of Education and Training (DIET) will adopt it. The Kothari Commission emphasized national and International standardization of Education. What’s in Kasturirangan?
The newly decoded NCF has been prepared under the steering committee chaired by former ISRO chairman and head of NEP committee 2020, Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan. The Education Minister, Shri Dharmendra Pradhan in a tweet said “All efforts will be made to bring out NCF 2023 aligned textbooks by next academic session. There will be a choice of two board exams from later years.”
The new NCF comprises 20% content from local social science and only 20% content of International knowledge while 30%-30% content at the regional and national levels for 6th-8th class students. Emphasizing sociology disciplines seven subjects- History, Geography, Political science, Economics, psychology, philosophy, and anthropology have been prescribed to the students for 6-8 classes. Less focus on science education for early-age students.
Now three languages- Two native and One Foreign language for 9-10th class students have been proposed to teach. Subjects like History, Geography, Political Science, and Economics will be continued from 9th and onward students in separate units.
Two subjects will be mandatory for 11th-12th class students among which one must be an Indian language related to the literature category. A total of six subjects have been prescribed for 11th-12th level students. The subjects have been categorized under three groups (Optional Groups)- The first group includes Physical and Vocational Education, Second group comprises Social Science, Humanities, and Interdisciplinary Subjects. The third one has science, Mathematics, and Computational thinking.
