Construction of curriculum framework

1. Submitted by
B. Mohanapriya
II-B.Ed
16204006

2. Curriculum framework
Meaning
One of the important tools in
ensuring consistency and quality in a
‘curriculum system’ is a curriculum
framework.

3. List of polices since Independence
 NCERT 1961
 Kothari commission 1964-66
 NPE 1990
 NPE 2005
 NPE 2016

4. NCERT
 The government set up the National
Council for Educational Research
and Training (NCERT) in 1961,
entrusted mainly with the mission of
preparing school level textbooks.

5. Focused on
 Among the textbooks prepared by
the NCERT had considerable
attention to both boys and girls.
 To bring about qualitative education
especially to bring about qualitative
changes in school education and
teacher education.

6. Kothari Commission 1964-66
The Commission was set up by the
Government of India on 14 July
1964 under the chairmanship
of Daulat Singh Kothari, then
chairman of the University Grants
Commission.

7. Focused on
 The Commission's aimed at examining all
aspects of the educational sector across
the country.
 Focusing on equalization of opportunities
to all irrespective of caste, religion and
gender and to achieve social and national
integration, the schools were advised to
provide education to backward classes on
a priority basis

8. National policy on education 1990
Focused on
 Prime Minister announced funding for a
project to facilitate the development of
school curriculum which was to be
equally relevant to girls and boys.

9. National policy on Education 2004
Focused on
 To shift learning from rote method
 Connection knowledge to life outside
the school
 with respect to social context NCF
2005 has ensured that irrespective of
caste, creed ,religion and sex all are
provided with a standard curriculum.

10. National policy on Education 2015
Focused on
 Eliminating gender disparities in primary
and secondary education by 2015,
focusing on quality and achievement.
 Achieving a 50-per cent improvement in
levels of adult literacy by 2015, especially
for women.

12.  Rules or guidelines not taught directly
but taken for granted that everyone
knows.
 Affects
social interactions
school performance
safety
metaphors
slang
body language
What is the “Hidden Curriculum”?

13. Example
When one understands hidden
curriculum….
We read both
idiom and body language
Message received is: Leave me alone

14. Gender in the Hidden curriculum
 A hidden curriculum can be defined
as the lessons that are taught
informally, and usually
unintentionally, in a school system.
 This is contrasted with the formal
curriculum.

15.  Gender is an important element of the
hidden curriculum.
 Schools reinforce larger cultural
messages about gender, including the
idea that gender is an essential
characteristic for organizing social
life.

16. The Hidden Curriculumreinforce traditional gender roles
 Girls and boys might be asked to help
around the school in gender specific
ways for example as when “boys
move furniture and girls serve coffee
at parents” evenings.

17.  In First and Middle Schools the fact
that the vast majority of teachers are
women may help to reinforce the
children's impression that it is women
who are especially suited to looking
after and teaching young teaching
although this may also have had the
effect of encouraging girls relative to
boys with their reading skills.

18. Implication of Hidden Curriculum
 Social relationship between teacher
and students is effected hidden
curriculum
 It can contribute undesirable
behavior, conflict or encouragement to
others
 Hidden curriculum practices are
transmitted to students intentionally for
unintentionally.

19. Hidden curriculum points to consider
 Hidden curriculum differs with age
 Hidden curriculum differs with gender
 Hidden curriculum differs depending
on who you are
 Cultures have their own unique
Hidden
Curriculum.