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education, it also conducts in-service training of teachers and teacher educators
in social sciences and commerce for capacity building of different states. The
department also collaborates with other departments and constituent units of
the NCERT, various states and central agencies in areas related with its functions.
The department also houses the National Population Education Project
(NPEP), which was launched in April 1980 as an educational intervention to
help the country attain its demographic goal. The unit has been implementing
two components of the Quality Improvement Scheme namely (i) National
Population Education Project in 30 States/UTs and (ii) Introduction of Yoga in
Schools. It has also been implementing the Adolescence Education Programme
of the MHRD funded by UNFPA for imparting authentic knowledge to learners
about Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health (ARSH) concerns, inculcate
positive attitude and develop appropriate skills for responsible ARSH behaviour.
The department would continue its work of developing textbooks in Human
Rights, Health and Physical Education, supplementary reading materials, audiovideo
materials, dictionaries and other resource materials for students and
teachers. It will also be conducting in-service teacher education programmes in
new areas such as GIS and Computerised Accounting. Extending support to
other agencies and states for bringing qualitative improvement in social science
and commerce education will be its endeavour.
Major Activities
DEVELOPMENT
Development of Textbooks on Health and Physical Education for the
Secondary Stage (Class IX and X)
Based on NCF-2005, NCERT has developed the syllabus on Health and Physical
Education for Classes I-XII, which has been approved by the National Monitoring
Committee. The department has developed textbooks for secondary stage (Class
IX and X) providing students an integrated and holistic understanding related
to Health and Physical Education at secondary stage. At this stage, the subject
areas include; human body, orientation to physical education and sports, we
and environment, food and nutrition, safety and security, social health, consumer
health and sports services. It is expected that these textbooks will provide better
transaction strategies to deal with this area. Efforts have been made to weave in
all the three components i.e. health, physical education and yoga under each
theme/chapter. Each chapter includes activities and questions for helping the
children to have more learning opportunities.
Development of Supplementary Reading Material on the Right to
Information Act
Supplementary Reading Material on RTI is being developed for students at the
the secondary stage. It should create awareness among students about the RTI
and also sensitise them in using RTI Act meaningfully. It intends to inspire them
to take up the issues and problems in their surroundings. The larger objective is
to see students as responsible future citizens who actively participate and consider
the government accountable for its policies and activities. In order to fulfill its
objectives, the material discusses the importance of rights in a democracy, shows
how people’s movement helped in the evolution of the RTI Act, how the act can
be used in our daily life and the key challenges in the application of the act.
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