Curriculum Development: Strictly On the Basis of Prescribed Syllabus With Modern Trends

This book aims to equip educators and curriculum-makers with a highly efficient and resourceful guide on all that entails an enriching educational experience through a wide-ranging, fulfilling educational curriculum. It provides the framework for building a curriculum which strives to incorporate the best of all aims of education, and endeavours to make students more complete human beings and achievers. The book has been specially contextualised within the Indian scenario, and makes an attempt at delineating the past and current curriculum standards and content. The Indian system of education has often been accused of being based on rote learning, where emphasis is laid on passing examinations with high percentages, and little attention is paid to the creativity and personality development of students. The book makes an honest evaluation of this critical assessment, and includes various suggestions to mitigate this issue. Along with guidelines on developing academic discipline like physics, chemistry, history, English, geography, etc., emphasis has also bee laid on encouraging the creative aspects of a child’s personality. Much of the guidelines have been detailed keeping in mind the universally held aim behind the propagation of education, which seeks to develop both the academic knowledge, as well as the all-round personality of a student. The compendious, highly generalised, though extensive and wide-ranging material of the book should prove to be helpful for not just school curriculum developers, but also for those involved in setting the curriculum of higher institutes of learning.