Annual Report - National Council Of Educational Research And ...

NCERT
2. Department of Elementary
Education
The Department of Elementary Education (DEE) is the
nodal department of NCERT to advise the government of
India on policies and programmes pertaining to elementary
education. It also acts as an academic authority at the
national level for the implementation of SSA and RTE Act,
2009 respectively.
The department undertakes various activities and programmes within the broad
framework of Universalisation of Elementary Education with major focus on
curriculum and material development, research, training and extension. Early
Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) is another critical area in which the
department is performing a lead role. The National Documentation Unit (NDU)
for pre-school and elementary education located in the department functions as
a forum for preserving and sharing innovative experiences and material.
ROLE AND FUNCTIONS
Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE)
� Building capacities of the states in the area of ECCE and helping them to
develop ECCE cells in SCERTs and DIETs;
� Conducting training programmes for key functionaries of states in planning,
implementation and monitoring of the ECE programmes and developing
necessary materials for children, teachers, teacher educators and parents;
� Distributing Early Childhood Care and Education—Children Media
Laboratory (ECCE-CML) kit to government run pre-school centres,
anganwadis and private institutions working in the area of ECCE;
� Developing exemplar material for training of the grass root ECCE functionaries;
� Developing resource material for pre-school teachers, parents and other
interested groups;
� Conducting need based research studies in the area of ECCE; and
� Providing resource support to governmental and non-governmental
institutions for the training of pre-school teachers.