India’s curriculum body needs to explain why it has removed foundational topics from school textbooks.
India’s schools curriculum body has not consulted with parents, teachers and researchers on curriculum changes.“To develop the scientific temper, humanism and the spirit of inquiry and reform.”
But those attributes now seem to be less valued, at least by those involved in setting the country’s education policies.have resulted in the deletion of the periodic table, explanations of evolution and electromagnetism, and discussions about the sustainable use of natural resources from the textbooks used by children aged 14–16.
India is not the only postcolonial country grappling with the question of how to honour and recognize older or Indigenous forms of knowledge in its school curricula. New Zealand is trialling the teaching of Māori ‘ways of knowing’ —— in a selection of schools across the country. But it is not removing important scientific content to accommodate the new material, and for good reason.
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