Responding to the National Centre for Education Research and Training's invitation to review textbooks from states, Delhi Education Minister Manish…
Manish Sisodia (PHOTO: Facebook)
Responding to the National Centre for Education Research and Training's invitation to review textbooks from states, Delhi Education Minister Manish Sisodia presented a detailed review of textbooks at the 54th NCERT General Council on Tuesday and wrote to HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar on the issue.
Sisodia wrote, "Textbooks must not be used as an ideological battleground between the Left and the Right. They must be designed to suit needs of children."
According to a Delhi government spokesperson, "Sisodia read all the textbooks of each subject over the past few weeks and compiled a systematic review. His letter to the Union HRD Minister also includes subject-wise reviews compiled by the teachers of Delhi."
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Sisodia said after the meeting, "Successive governments have used education as an ideological battlefield that is used to force certain narratives on children. Education must not be a platform for such political point scoring. The design of our textbooks must be with the sole purpose of improving learning outcomes of our children. Textbooks should help children build on their own life experiences, so as to generate genuine interest and curiosity among them for the textbooks."
He said Delhi government's mentor teachers have designed special supplementary material for all subjects for Classes 6 to 8 called "Pragati".
"Pragati material is aimed at overcoming the shortcomings of textbooks, as felt by teachers. During the meeting, the Deputy CM shared copies of Pragati for perusal of the General Council," said the spokesperson.
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