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Kulwinder Pal, Lovely Professional University Unit 6: National Policy of Education, (1986)

Unit 6: National Policy of Education, (1986) Notes

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction
6.1 Main Features of National Policy on Education (1986)
6.2 Programme of Action (POA), 1986
6.3 Major Steps of National Policy of Education
6.4 National Policy on Education and Early Childhood Education and Care (ECCE)
6.5 Main Features of the National System of Education
6.6 Evaluation of the NPE
6.7 National Policy on Education and Reconstruction of Curriculum
6.8 National Curriculum for Elementary and Secondary Education (1988)
6.9 Summary
6.10 Keywords
6.11 Review Questions
6.12 Further Readings

Objectives
The objectives of this unit can be summarized as below:
• to discuss about the main features at the nations policy of education (1986).
• to describe about the programme of action (POA), 1986.
• to discuss about the major steps of national policy of education.
• to explain about the national policy on education and early childhood education and care (ECCE).
• to discuss about Main Features of the National System of Education
• to explain Evaluation of the NPE
• to discuss National Policy on Education and Reconstruction of Curriculum
• to explain Curriculum for Elementary and Secondary Education (1988)

Introduction

The Education Commission 1964-66 recommended that the Government of India should issue a
statement on the National Policy on Education which should provide guidance to the State
Governments and the local authorities in preparing and implementing educational plans. In
1967 the Government of India constituted a committee of Members of Parliament on Education
to prepare the draft of a statement on the National Policy of Education. The Committee brought
together, for the first time in recent history, leading members of almost all the political parties
in the country and prepared a draft which was considered by the Central Advisory Board of
Education. A general consensus on the national policy on education emerged in the course of
the Board’s deliberations. Thereafter the Government of India issued the Resolution on National
Policy on Education in 1968.

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