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Development of Education System

Notes These portrayals need to ensure that no community is oversimplified, labelled, or judged. It
may even be better for children to study and generate portrayals of the local social groups as a
part of their social science studies. They can then directly interact with the gram panchayat
representative, who may be invited to the school to speak about the extent to which
decentralisation has helped in addressing local civic issues. Local oral history could also be
connected with regional history and national history. But the social context also calls for a
much greater critical awareness and critical engagement on the part of curriculum developers
and teachers. Community-based identities, of gender, caste, class and religion are primary
identities, but they can also be oppressive and reaffirm social inequalities and hierarchies.
School knowledge can also provide a lens Local Knowledge Traditions Many communities and
individuals in India are a rich storehouse of knowledge about many aspects

10.8 Some Developmental Considerations

Children’s interests, physical skills, linguistic capacity, and ability for abstract thinking and
generalisation develop over the span of schooling, from the pre-school period through higher
secondary school. This is a period of intensive growth and development, and also of fundamental
shifts and changes in interests and capabilities.
Self Assessment
3. Multiple choice questions: Choose the correct option
(i) .................. and other forms of expression provide the basis for meaning making, and
sharing with others.
(a) language (b) school
(c) knowledge (d) education
(ii) In India, traditionally followed ...................... activity to organising the curriculum,
drawing on only the disciplines.
(a) school based (b) subject based
(c) student based (d) state based
(iii) The child’s community and local environment from the context in which learning takes
place and knowledge acquires its significance.
(a) primary (b) secondary
(c) tertiary (d) old

10.9 Summary

• In spite of the recommendations of the NPE, 1986 to identify competencies and values to
be nurtured at different stages, school education came to be driven more and more by
high-stake examinations based on information-loaded textbooks.
• Even as the system attempts to reach every child, the issue of quality presents a new range
of challenges. The belief that quality goes with privilege is clearly irreconcilable with the
vision of participatory democracy that India upholds and practises in the political sphere.
• he aims of education serve as broad guidelines to align educational processes to chosen
ideals and accepted principles. The aims of education simultaneously reflect the current
needs and aspirations of a society as well as its lasting values, and the immediate concerns
of a community as well as broad human ideals.
10.10 Keywords

• Milieus: The social environment that you live.
• Envisage: To imagin what will happen in the future.
• Pursue: To continue to discuss.

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