The National Council of Educational Research and
Training or NCERT has constituted a 35-member panel tasked with creating the
syllabus and teaching-learning material for social sciences, encompassing
subjects such as history, geography, political science, sociology and
psychology.
This Curriculum Area Group or CAG is responsible for
developing the curriculum for Classes 6 to 12 in alignment with the new
National Curriculum Framework for school education.
Following the NCF’s notification, NCERT had previously
formed the National Curriculum Framework Oversight Committee and the National
Syllabus and Teaching-Learning Material Committee on July 21.
The Curricular Area Group (CAG): Social Science
(including History, Geography, Political Science, Sociology and Psychology),
which is chaired by Michel Danino, a visiting professor at IIT-Gandhinagar, has
been formed in continuation of another 19-member National Syllabus and Teaching
Learning Material Committee (NSTC) that was notified in July to finalize the
curriculum, textbooks and learning material for these classes.
As expected, the NSTC was expected to establish a
minimum of 11 CAGs across various subject domains. Presently, CAGs have been
formed for innovative pedagogy and teaching-learning material, as well as for
Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) and social sciences.
“This Group will also coordinate with the Preparatory
Stage CAG, as well as with other CAGs as required, to ensure continuity with
Grades 3-5, interdisciplinarity among subjects, and the integration of
cross-cutting themes in Social Science,” stated the NCERT notification.
“Given the need for vertical and horizontal linkages
and integration across disciplines in Social Sciences, both the CAGs- Social
Science and Economics will ensure this integration by sharing and discussing
drafts of material prepared with each other,” it added.
Experts for the CAG on social sciences have been
selected from various institutions across the country.
The members include Banabina Brahma from Kokrajhar
Government College (Assam), economist Sanjeev Sanyal, historian Meenakshi Jain
(former associate professor at Gargi College), Javaid Iqbal Bhat from the
Department of English at the University of Kashmir, Jaswinder Singh (assistant
professor at Guru Gobind Singh Department of Religious Studies, Punjabi
University, Patiala), and Swati Singh (special education teacher at Shiv Nadar
School, Gurgaon).
Professor Michel Danino, a member of the National
Syllabus and Teaching-Learning Material Committee (NSTC), serves as the
chairperson of this CAG.
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