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The National Curriculum Framework 2005 (NCF 2005) is the fourth National Curriculum Framework published in 2005 by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) in India. Its predecessors were published in 1975, 1988, 2000.
The NCF 2005 serves as a guideline for syllabus,[1] textbooks, and teaching practices for the schools in India. The NCF 2005[2] has based its policies on previous government reports on education, such as Learning Without Burden[3] and National Policy of Education 1986–1992,[4] and focus group discussion.[5] After multiple deliberations 21 National Focus Group Position Papers have been published to provide inputs for NCF 2005. NCF 2005 and its offshoot textbooks have come under different forms of reviews in the press.[6]
Its draft document was criticized by the Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE).[7] In February 2008, Krishna Kumar, then the director of NCERT, also discussed the challenges faced by the document in an interview.[8] The subjects of NCF 2005 include all educational institutions in India. A number of its recommendations, for example, focus on rural schools. The syllabus and textbooks based on it are being used by all the CBSE schools and multiple state schools.[8]
NCF 2005 has been translated into 22 languages and has influenced the syllabus in 17 states. The NCERT provided a grant of ₹10,00,000 to all states to promote NCF in their local language and to compare its current syllabus with the syllabus proposed, so that a plan for future reforms could be made. This exercise is being executed with the support of State Councils for Educational Research and Training (SCERT) and District Institutes of Education and Training (DIET).
On 21 September 2021, the Union Education Ministry formed a 12-member committee to develop new curriculums for School, early child, teacher and adult education.
This panel tasked with developing 4 national curriculum frameworks (NCFs) will be headed by NEP-2020 drafting committee chairperson and Former ISRO chairman (1994-2003) Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan.
K. Kasturirangan awarded three civilian awards Padma Shri in 1982, Padma Bhushan in 1992 and Padma Vibhushan in 2000.
- ^ Syllabus I-XII, National Council of Educational Research and Training, retrieved 2015-04-14.
- ^ National Curriculum Framework 2005, National Council of Educational Research and Training, retrieved 2015-04-14.
- ^ Learning without Burden Archived February 23, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "National Policy on Education, 1985" (PDF). National Council of Educational Research and Training. Retrieved 2015-04-14.
- ^ National Focus Group Position Papers and NCF, National Council of Educational Research and Training, retrieved 2015-04-14.
- ^ News on National Curriculum Framework, National Council of Educational Research and Training, Archived February 5, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ NCERT draft curriculum framework criticised, The Hindu, 7 August 2005, retrieved 2015-04-14.
- ^ a b `Teaching profession is in a deep crisis', Frontline, 1 March 2008, retrieved 2015-04-14.