Teachers vs academics in row over revision of NCERT books
By Express News Service
NEW DELHI: After a bunch of academicians distanced themselves from the NCERT textbooks and sought their names to be dropped, greater than 100 educators defended the revised chapters vigorously.
They slammed the “narrow and self-interested” lecturers for maligning NCERT.
Joining this group, which included professors and vice-chancellors of India’s prime institutes, together with JNU, IITs, IIMs and Central Universities was University Grants Commission (UGC) Chairman M Jagadesh Kumar who claimed that the target behind the “grumbling of protesting academicians was non-academic.”
“There is no merit in the hue and cry of these ‘academicians’,” mentioned Professor M Jagadesh Kumar, the previous Vice Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University.
“The current textbook modifications are not the only ones carried out. NCERT has been revising textbooks from time to time in the past too. NCERT is fully justified in rationalising its textbook contents,” he mentioned in a sequence of tweets.
He additional added that the assault by some “academicians” on NCERT revising textbooks are “unwarranted.”
Calling the academicians, together with Yogendra Yadav, who wrote to NCERT on dropping their names from the political science textbooks as “arrogant and self-interested”, the 106 academicians mentioned, “Through misinformation, rumours, and false allegations, they want to derail the implementation of the National Education Policy (NEP 2020) and disrupt the updation of NCERT textbooks.”
“Their demand that students continue to study from 17-year-old textbooks rather than updated textbooks in sync with contemporary developments and pedagogical advancement reveals intellectual arrogance,” they mentioned.
“In their quest to further their political agenda, they are ready to endanger the future of crores of children across the country,” mentioned the academicians who defended NCERT. These academicians included JNU Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit, prof Dhananjay Singh, member secretary, Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) and Prof E Suresh Kumar, VC, English and Foreign Language University.
“While students are eagerly awaiting updated textbooks, these academicians are continuing to create hurdles and derail the entire process,” they mentioned.
The letter got here a day after 33 academicians had written to NCERT looking for the dropping of their names from the textbooks saying their collective inventive effort was in jeopardy.
The transfer got here every week after political scientists Yogendra Yadav and Suhas Palshikar wrote to the NCERT distancing from these books.
Dropping a number of subjects and parts from NCERT textbooks final month triggered an argument. While the adjustments made throughout the rationalisation train – undertaken final 12 months resulting from Covid-19 – have been notified, some controversial deletions, like parts on Mahatma Gandhi, RSS and Nathuram Godse, weren’t talked about.
Those supporting the NCERT revisions claimed that lecturers opposing the transfer are attempting to seize media consideration over a non-issue.
They claimed that the college curriculum had not been up to date for over 20 years. The goal of the train was to cut back the load on college students who’ve already confronted disruption of their training due to Covid-19.
NEW DELHI: After a bunch of academicians distanced themselves from the NCERT textbooks and sought their names to be dropped, greater than 100 educators defended the revised chapters vigorously.
They slammed the “narrow and self-interested” lecturers for maligning NCERT.
Joining this group, which included professors and vice-chancellors of India’s prime institutes, together with JNU, IITs, IIMs and Central Universities was University Grants Commission (UGC) Chairman M Jagadesh Kumar who claimed that the target behind the “grumbling of protesting academicians was non-academic.”googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
“There is no merit in the hue and cry of these ‘academicians’,” mentioned Professor M Jagadesh Kumar, the previous Vice Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University.
“The current textbook modifications are not the only ones carried out. NCERT has been revising textbooks from time to time in the past too. NCERT is fully justified in rationalising its textbook contents,” he mentioned in a sequence of tweets.
He additional added that the assault by some “academicians” on NCERT revising textbooks are “unwarranted.”
Calling the academicians, together with Yogendra Yadav, who wrote to NCERT on dropping their names from the political science textbooks as “arrogant and self-interested”, the 106 academicians mentioned, “Through misinformation, rumours, and false allegations, they want to derail the implementation of the National Education Policy (NEP 2020) and disrupt the updation of NCERT textbooks.”
“Their demand that students continue to study from 17-year-old textbooks rather than updated textbooks in sync with contemporary developments and pedagogical advancement reveals intellectual arrogance,” they mentioned.
“In their quest to further their political agenda, they are ready to endanger the future of crores of children across the country,” mentioned the academicians who defended NCERT. These academicians included JNU Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit, prof Dhananjay Singh, member secretary, Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) and Prof E Suresh Kumar, VC, English and Foreign Language University.
“While students are eagerly awaiting updated textbooks, these academicians are continuing to create hurdles and derail the entire process,” they mentioned.
The letter got here a day after 33 academicians had written to NCERT looking for the dropping of their names from the textbooks saying their collective inventive effort was in jeopardy.
The transfer got here every week after political scientists Yogendra Yadav and Suhas Palshikar wrote to the NCERT distancing from these books.
Dropping a number of subjects and parts from NCERT textbooks final month triggered an argument. While the adjustments made throughout the rationalisation train – undertaken final 12 months resulting from Covid-19 – have been notified, some controversial deletions, like parts on Mahatma Gandhi, RSS and Nathuram Godse, weren’t talked about.
Those supporting the NCERT revisions claimed that lecturers opposing the transfer are attempting to seize media consideration over a non-issue.
They claimed that the college curriculum had not been up to date for over 20 years. The goal of the train was to cut back the load on college students who’ve already confronted disruption of their training due to Covid-19.
