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CEE
in the committee to `Environmentalize' the textbooks
of Karnataka
Dr. Shailaja Ravindranath, Programme
Coordinator, CEE Southern Regional Cell has been appointed
as the Chair of the textbook committee of Directorate
of State Education Research and Training (DSERT), Government
of Karnataka to revise the curriculum of the existing
environment subject of Standards 1 to 4, in the light
of the recent Supreme Court Judgment to introduce environment
as a compulsory subjects.
The committee includes selected teachers from primary,
higher primary and high school; representatives from
District Institute of Education and Training (DIET),
and representatives from the textbook division of DSERT.
Currently, CEE is reviewing the contents
of the textbooks, suggesting the environmental concepts
to be introduced, removed, modified, adapted etc. Several
meetings are being held by the textbook committee so
that the work can be completed by the end of this year.
The committee is ensuring that the syllabus for Environmental
Education (EE) suggested by NCERT is being followed
and ensuring that the information is specifically relevant
to the state, at the same time taking care not to increase
the curriculum load. The effort is also to link the
concepts at different levels so that there is continuity.
In addition to this, a separate box
on "competency" has been introduced in three
to four points in each lesson so as to enable the teacher
and students to know the learning objective of each
chapter. Some general information like What is EE? and
also some general instructions on the approaches of
teaching EE has been given in the introductory pages
of each book, to help teachers to adopt relevant methodologies
while teaching.
The Karnataka DSERT would introduce the revised textbooks
in the next academic year.
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