CCE Manual VI - VIII - CBSE

Continuous and Comprehensive EvaluationChapter 1Manual for TeachersContinuous andComprehensiveEvaluationAim of EducationEducation aims at making children capable ofbecoming responsible, productive and usefulmembers of a society. Knowledge, skills andattitudes are built through learning experiences andopportunities created for learners in school. It is inthe classroom that learners can analyse andevaluate their experiences, learn to doubt, toquestion, to investigate and to think independently.The aim of education simultaneously reflects thecurrent needs and aspirations of a society as wellas its lasting values and human ideals. At any giventime and place it can be called the contemporaryand contextual articulations of broad and lastinghuman aspirations and values.An understanding of learners, educational aims,the nature of knowledge, and the nature of the schoolas a social organization can help us arrive atprinciples to guide classroom practices. Conceptualdevelopment is thus a continuous process of1