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`Curriculum should help students face challenges'

By Our Special Correspondent

KOCHI, APRIL 30. The Chairman of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), Ashok Ganguly, has underscored the need for a prescriptive curriculum and its timely modification. He was addressing a meeting on the second day of the southern regional conference of CBSE Principals here today.

Dr. Ganguly detailed the challenges in curriculum and the CBSE's response. He felt that the curriculum should be taken out of the walls of the classrooms to enable students to face global challenges. "Real life learning is more important than textual learning," he pointed out. Each learner is a vibrant individual who charts his own path. Value-oriented climate is most important in schools. One should aim not at better quality alone but at a higher quality of life also, he added.

According to him, pedagogy should lay emphasis on the inter-disciplinary approach. He pointed out that the CBSE had incorporated disaster management in the curriculum to better equip the students to face a world riddled with calamities. He said that the schools had been advised to make the students aware of the new and changing employment scenario. Dr. Ganguly felt that more employment opportunities were available in the unorganised sector than in the organised sector. He wanted the schools to incorporate life skills such as Naturopathy and Ayurveda in the curriculum.

Speaking on the topic `management of value conflicts through education', G. Balasubramanian, Principal, said that value education would be incomplete unless one `humanised' a person. He observed that a good human being was the sum total of right attitudes and opinions. Homes, peers, and mass media influence a child's value system. The pivotal role played by schools in shaping the value system of children needs to be equally shared by parents, he added.

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