Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday appealed to the public to participate in a citizen survey being conducted by NCERT for development of a new National Curriculum Framework (NCF) for school education. NCF serves as a guideline for designing syllabus and textbooks and for teaching practices in the country.
There are a total 10 questions in the digital survey with each of them having five options. The queries include how to make education futuristic and skill oriented and improve the dignity of teachers in country. The minister said that "development of a vibrant, dynamic, inclusive and futuristic National Curriculum Framework is essential for integrating cultural-rootedness along with global outlook, freeing education from the colonial hangover and instilling a deeper sense of pride in our next generations". "I appeal to all citizens to participate in Citizen Survey for NCF for developing #NayeBharatKa NayaCurriculum. A dynamic National Curriculum Framework in line with the NEP 2020 will play a major role in achieving the goal of Viksit Bharat," Pradhan said in a series of tweets.
The Digital Survey for National Curriculum (DiSaNC) is being conducted by education ministry and National Council of Education and Research Training (NCERT) as part of public consultation process for formulation of NCF.
The other questions in survey are pertaining to people's opinion on values that need to be imbibed in children in course of school education, languages they should learn from class 1 onwards and parents' envision of teachers' role in holistic development of children. PNS
It has also sought the stakeholders' opinion on subject areas children need to study in classes 6 to 8 (secondary stage) and classes 3 to 5 (preparatory stage) besides their take on the focus of learning by children in the age group of 3-8 years (Foundational Stage).