NCF 2005

3.  National Steering Committee set up under the
chairmanship of Dr.yashpal
 NSC comprised 35 members including scholars,
principals and teachers, NGO representatives and
NCERT faculty
 NSC supported by 21 National Focus Groups to
prepare well researched Position Papers
NPE (1986),& POA(1992) given a role to NCERT to prepare and
pramote NCF2005

4. NCF DRAFTING COMMITTEE

5.  The school system is characterized by an
inflexibility that makes it resistant to change;
 Learning has become an isolated activity, which
does not encourage children to link knowledge
with their lives in any organic or vital way;

 The “future” of the child has taken centre stage to
the near exclusion of the child’s “present” , which
is detrimental to the well-being of the child as
well as the society & the nation.

6. Distortion of Aims of Education
(Learning has become a source of burden and stress for children)
 Textbooks/Workbooks
 Information Overload
 Incomprehension
 Tests and Examinations

7. Problem of Curriculum Load
 Joyless learning
 Examination system
 Textbook as the ‘Truth’
 Structure of syllabus
 Language Textbooks
 Starting Early

10. Learning
and
Knowledge
(Were she to fly she would bring tidings
from across the infinite skies;
Were you to make her fly, she
would but confine herself to sitting on the
rooftop)

12. Learning and Knowledge
 Highlights the value of interaction with:
 environment,
 peers,
 older people to enhance learning; grandpa
 Learning tasks must be designed to enable children to seek out
knowledge from sites other than textbooks.
 Need therefore to move away from the ‘Herbartian’ lesson plan to
preparing plans and activities that challenge children to think and
try out what they are learning.

13. NCF CURRICULUM AREAS
Traditional
 Mathematics
 Language
 Science
 Social Sciences
Other Areas
 Art Education
 Health & Physical
Education
 Education for Peace
 Habitat & Learning

14. Udega to saaton aasmaano ki khabar le aayega.
Udaaoge to chhat pe jaakar baith jayega.
(Were she to fly she would bring tidings from across
the infinite skies;
Were you to make her fly, she would but confine
herself to sitting on the rooftop)

16. School and classroom environment

19. NCF-Aims of Education
(Based on the Constitutions’ Vision of India)
 Independence of thought and action
 Learning to respond to new situations flexibly
and creatively
 Pre-disposition for participation in democratic
process and social change
 Empower all children to learn