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NCERT
9. Department of Education in
Arts and Aesthetics
Department of Education in Arts and Aesthetics has been
set-up with a vision to address the immediate need of
integrating Art Education in the school curriculum to retain
the unique identity of our nation in all its diversity and
richness.
It has been felt for long that art, being an area of vast potential to enhance learning
experiences of the children and their aesthetic sensibilities needs to be recognised
and given due place in school education. Keeping this in view, the DEAA has been
created recently at NCERT having a distinct identity to help fulfill the needs by
expanding its sphere of work in a more meaningful manner i.e. conducting research,
development, training and extension activities in all fields of arts with a vision:
To promote all forms of arts in schools by bringing it into the mainstream
of the country’s education system through various activities to unfold
the aesthetic potentialities of children for enabling them to become
contributing citizens.
ROLE AND FUNCTIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT
� Prepare teaching and learning materials including textbooks, teachers’
handbooks, and supplementary materials including monographs, anthology,
audio-visual materials, multi-media programmes etc. for all stages of school
in visual arts, theatre, music and dance.
� Periodical review of the curriculum and syllabus and its development.
� Integrate arts education, culture education and heritage crafts across the
entire curriculum of school.
� Conduct capacity building programmes for the states in the areas of arts
education in developing curriculum, syllabus, textbooks, supplementary
materials, teacher-training modules etc.
� In-service programmes for art educators of different stages.
� Evolving the pre-service teacher education.