The seven-member group, which was established the previous year, has offered a number of suggestions for the social sciences section of its final position paper.
All Facts About NCERT Panel that Addition of Ramayana and Mahabharat in Schools Syllabus:
The Preamble of the Constitution should be written on classroom walls and epics like the Ramayana and Mahabharata should be included in textbooks, according to a high-level committee chaired by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) to review the social science curriculum. This recommendation was made on Tuesday by committee chairperson CI Isaac.
The seven-member group was formed last year and has since produced a number of recommendations for its final position paper on social sciences, which serves as a crucial guideline for establishing the parameters for creating new NCERT textbooks.
The 19-member National Syllabus and Teaching Learning Material Committee (NSTC), which was notified in July to finalize the curriculum, textbooks, and learning materials for these classes, may now take the committee’s recommendation into consideration.
In order to provide curricula and teaching-learning resources for social science, the NSTC has also recently established a Curricular Area Group (CAG).
“The committee has insisted on teaching epics like Ramayana and Mahabharata in the social science syllabus to students,” Isaac stated, highlighting the importance of teaching the stories to pupils in classes 7 through 12. Teenage kids, in our opinion, are the ones who develop their sense of pride in their country, patriotism, and self-worth.
Due to a lack of patriotism, thousands of students seek citizenship in other nations each year and leave the country. Consequently, it’s critical that they comprehend their heritage and grow to love their nation and culture.
“Several education boards currently teach the Ramayana to students, however they are taught it as a myth. A myth is what? If these epics are not taught to pupils, the educational system serves no purpose and will not be beneficial to the country, the speaker continued.
Issac had previously stated that the panel had suggested adding “classical History” to the syllabus of textbooks for grades 3 through 12, in place of ancient History, and changing the name “India” in textbooks to “Bharat.”
It was also previously suggested that the Ramayana and Mahabharata be taught in the curriculum. “No new recommendations have been made by the committee,” he stated.
“Our Preamble is noble,” Isaac remarked, elucidating the rationale behind the suggestion to write the Constitution’s Preamble on the classroom walls. It places emphasis on societal principles such as secularism and democracy. So that everyone may comprehend and benefit from it, we have advised writing it on the classroom walls,” Isaac continued.
NCERT is currently modifying the school curriculum to bring it into line with the 2020 National Education Policy (NEP). The upcoming academic session is likely to see the release of the new NCERT textbooks.