Express View on NCERT Revisions: Narrowing the View
8 April 2024 | The Indian Express
An investigation by this newspaper has revealed significant changes in NCERT’s history, sociology and political science textbooks of classes VI to XII. Revision of learning material should be par for the course in a robust education system. But school curricula in India — especially social science textbooks — have not always kept pace with the latest research. History textbooks, for instance, haven’t done adequate justice to the archaeological findings that have changed understandings of the Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC).
Recent historiography on understudied areas, such as the country’s Northeast, is yet to find a way into the school curriculum. Political science textbooks have very little on the new forms of mobilisation enabled by social media. It’s also time that the student is apprised of climate change politics…