Mahesana
English Paper
The
National Curriculum Framework, (NCF), 2005, recommends that children's life at
school must be linked to their life outside the school. This principle marks a
departure from the legacy of bookish learning which continues to shape our
system and causes a gap between the school, home and community. The syllabus and
textbooks developed on the basis of NCF signify an attempt to implement this
basic idea.
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They
also attempt to discourage rote learning and the maintenance of sharp
boundaries between different subject areas. We hope these measures will take us
significantly further in the direction of a child-centred system of education
outlined in the National Policy on Education (1986). The success of this effort
depends on the steps that school principals and teachers will take to encourage
children to reflect on their own learning and to pursue imaginative activities
and questions.
We
must recognise that, given space, time and freedom, children generate new
knowledge by engaging with the information passed on to them by adults.
Treating the prescribed textbook as the sole basis of examination is one of the
key reasons why other resources and sites of learning are ignored. Inculcating
creativity and initiative is possible if we perceive and treat children as participants
in learning, not as receivers of a fixed body of knowledge. These aims imply
considerable change in school routines and mode of functioning.
Flexibility
in the daily time-table is as necessary as rigour in implementing the annual
calendar so that the required number of teaching days are actually devoted to
teaching. The methods used for teaching and evaluation will also determine how
effective this textbook proves for making children's life at school a happy
experience, rather than a source of stress or boredom.
Syllabus
designers have tried to address the problem of curricular burden by
restructuring and reorienting knowledge at different stages with greater
consideration for child psychology and the time available for teaching. The
textbook attempts to enhance this endeavour by giving higher priority and space
to opportunities for contemplation and wondering, discussion in small groups,
and activities requiring hands-on experience.
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