Dharmendra Pradhan launches National Curriculum Framework for 3-8 years kids
5 min readBy Express News Service
NEW DELHI: Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday launched the National Curriculum Framework for foundational stage schooling of youngsters within the three to eight age group.
Describing the NCF, which emphasises that early childhood care and schooling are vital areas of growth, as an vital step taken to implement the New Education Policy – 2020, Pradhan appealed to the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) to finish the curriculum, syllabus, and textbooks by subsequent Basant Panchami.
“This will help equip our young ones with cognitive and linguistic competencies of the 21st century,” he mentioned on the launch.
As it’s thought of that kids be taught greatest via play, the curriculum thus envisages realizing by offering stimulating experiences for his or her growth in all dimensions – cognitive, social-emotional, and bodily. It will even allow the achievement of foundational literacy and numeracy for all our kids.
Pradhan additionally launched Balvatika for college kids of age group 3-5 years in 50 Kendriya Vidyalayas (VK) on a pilot foundation, one of the crucial vital suggestions of NEP 2020.
“Foundational, preparatory, middle and secondary are the four stages of NCF for school education. Developing the foundational framework was one of the most important and challenging aspects under NEP 2020, as it has a huge bearing on shaping the future of our country,” the minister mentioned.
Balvatika can be carried out from the subsequent tutorial 12 months in all Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) colleges. “We will also discuss with state governments to implement this initiative in their schools,” he mentioned, including that Uttarakhand has carried out and institutionalised Balvatika in additional than 4,000 colleges.
He additionally mentioned that within the subsequent few years, 100% of youngsters within the 3-year age group can be introduced underneath formal education.
NCF, for the foundational stage of college schooling, will lay a powerful basis for constructing a Twenty first-century India and requested NCERT to translate into regional languages. “It is a pathway for nurturing global citizens who will take responsibility for humanity,” he mentioned, including that the holistic growth of a kid takes place within the first 5 years.
Innovative expertise and game-based schooling are bringing new paradigms in educating pedagogy. “We have to work together on a war footing to create innovative, games-based content,” Pradhan mentioned.
The NCF-2022 has 4 sections – college schooling, early childhood care and schooling, instructor schooling and grownup schooling.
The framework mentioned that “brain development is most rapid in the first eight years of a child’s life, indicating the critical importance of cognitive and socio-emotional stimulation in the early years.”
The framework has listed the ‘panchakosha’ idea for youngsters’s schooling, and its 5 components are bodily growth, growth of life power, emotional and psychological growth, mental growth and religious growth. Panchakosha is an historical explication of the significance of the body-mind complicated in human expertise and understanding.
All these engagements intention to attain the three developmental objectives of sustaining good well being and well-being, changing into efficient communicators, and changing into concerned learners.
The framework mentioned that whereas staffing of Anganwadis isn’t full, it’s at excessive ranges. However, it didn’t have information for personal establishments. The variety of establishments providing related instructor schooling programmes is low and insufficient.
The NCF can be transacted over three months, with 4 hours a day dedicated to familiarising kids with the college setting and offering well-being experiences.
The entry-level schooling will allow studying of moral values and cultural variety and interplay with the bodily, social and pure setting, the NCF mentioned.
NEW DELHI: Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday launched the National Curriculum Framework for foundational stage schooling of youngsters within the three to eight age group.
Describing the NCF, which emphasises that early childhood care and schooling are vital areas of growth, as an vital step taken to implement the New Education Policy – 2020, Pradhan appealed to the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) to finish the curriculum, syllabus, and textbooks by subsequent Basant Panchami.
“This will help equip our young ones with cognitive and linguistic competencies of the 21st century,” he mentioned on the launch.
As it’s thought of that kids be taught greatest via play, the curriculum thus envisages realizing by offering stimulating experiences for his or her growth in all dimensions – cognitive, social-emotional, and bodily. It will even allow the achievement of foundational literacy and numeracy for all our kids.
Pradhan additionally launched Balvatika for college kids of age group 3-5 years in 50 Kendriya Vidyalayas (VK) on a pilot foundation, one of the crucial vital suggestions of NEP 2020.
“Foundational, preparatory, middle and secondary are the four stages of NCF for school education. Developing the foundational framework was one of the most important and challenging aspects under NEP 2020, as it has a huge bearing on shaping the future of our country,” the minister mentioned.
Balvatika can be carried out from the subsequent tutorial 12 months in all Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) colleges. “We will also discuss with state governments to implement this initiative in their schools,” he mentioned, including that Uttarakhand has carried out and institutionalised Balvatika in additional than 4,000 colleges.
He additionally mentioned that within the subsequent few years, 100% of youngsters within the 3-year age group can be introduced underneath formal education.
NCF, for the foundational stage of college schooling, will lay a powerful basis for constructing a Twenty first-century India and requested NCERT to translate into regional languages. “It is a pathway for nurturing global citizens who will take responsibility for humanity,” he mentioned, including that the holistic growth of a kid takes place within the first 5 years.
Innovative expertise and game-based schooling are bringing new paradigms in educating pedagogy. “We have to work together on a war footing to create innovative, games-based content,” Pradhan mentioned.
The NCF-2022 has 4 sections – college schooling, early childhood care and schooling, instructor schooling and grownup schooling.
The framework mentioned that “brain development is most rapid in the first eight years of a child’s life, indicating the critical importance of cognitive and socio-emotional stimulation in the early years.”
The framework has listed the ‘panchakosha’ idea for youngsters’s schooling, and its 5 components are bodily growth, growth of life power, emotional and psychological growth, mental growth and religious growth. Panchakosha is an historical explication of the significance of the body-mind complicated in human expertise and understanding.
All these engagements intention to attain the three developmental objectives of sustaining good well being and well-being, changing into efficient communicators, and changing into concerned learners.
The framework mentioned that whereas staffing of Anganwadis isn’t full, it’s at excessive ranges. However, it didn’t have information for personal establishments. The variety of establishments providing related instructor schooling programmes is low and insufficient.
The NCF can be transacted over three months, with 4 hours a day dedicated to familiarising kids with the college setting and offering well-being experiences.
The entry-level schooling will allow studying of moral values and cultural variety and interplay with the bodily, social and pure setting, the NCF mentioned.
