This faculty yr, college students below 16 will not be taught about evolution or the periodic desk of components. The modifications to textbooks – which embrace historic revisions that swimsuit a Hindu nationalist agenda – have shocked educators within the nation, who worry the curriculum modifications are an indication of a higher acceptance of pseudoscience and right-wing politics.
Subjects associated to local weather change and environmental sustainability have additionally been faraway from the curriculum. The revisions have been permitted by the state-run Nationwide Council of Academic Analysis and Coaching (NCERT) and have been applied in textbooks for the present faculty yr which began in Might. In keeping with NCERT, revisions have been made to cut back academic workload for college kids burdened by the coronavirus pandemic.
Critics have accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP) of utilizing faculty textbook revisions to rewrite historical past and complement their aim of turning a constitutionally secular India into an ethnic Hindu state. Along with the removing of some scientific ideas, school-age college students can not examine Mahatma Gandhi’s opposition to Hindu nationalism, historical past about Muslim leaders from the nation’s Mughal Empire, and the secular roots of post-colonial India.
On this episode of The Stream, we’ll take a look at how the politicisation of textbooks is altering training in India.
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