Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan released the "mandate document" for a common curriculum framework under the new National Education Policy (NEP) and described it as a step towards decolonisation of the Indian education system.
The National Education Policy 2020 recommended the development of NCF in four areas -- school education, early childhood care and education, teacher education and adult education. For providing inputs for the development of these curriculum frameworks, 25 themes based on the perspectives of the NEP are identified under three categories. These are curriculum and pedagogy, cross-cutting issues, and other important areas of NEP focussing on systemic changes and reforms. The minister said that central to the implementation of the transformative NEP is the new NCF which will empower and enable outstanding teaching and learning in the country by converting the vision of the NEP into reality in schools and classrooms.
National Curriculum Framework
The NCF has been revised four times so far -- in 1975, 1988, 2000 and 2005. The proposed revision will be the fifth of the framework. The revision of the curriculum framework will be in sync with the implementation of the examination reforms such as a uniform assessment and evaluation system under the proposed National Assessment Centre as proposed by the NEP. According to the mandate document, questions such as what are the ways to implement home language as the medium of instruction, what challenges were faced in organising online education during the COVID-19 pandemic, which subjects should be added in social sciences to widen the choice of subjects for greater flexibility at the secondary stage will form the basis of the new NCF.
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