Focus on mother tongue from the early stages: CBSE

CBSE has instructed all its schools to make use of educational material that focuses on learning in one’s mother tongue and encourages multilingual education. Highlights:

Highlights:

• The CBSE circular is in line with the National Education Policy 2020 and the National Curriculum Framework 2022,
• It emphasises teaching and learning in the child’s mother tongue, or regional and local language.
• Activity-based curriculum drawn up for Anganwadis.
• Centre releases curriculum framework for three to six-year-olds
• The sets of primers (Reading Books) for the local language and numerals to the kids of Balvatikas and Anganwadis, and for adult literacy programmes have been created
  • They are a key to pronunciation and comprehension of the letters of the alphabet and symbols of a language.
• The NCERT and the Indian Institute of Languages have collaborated to produce a series of 52 entry-level primers tailored to various mother tongues and local languages spoken across India,
  • Bhutia, Bodo, Garo, Khandeshi, Kinnauri, Kuki, Manipuri, Nepali, Sherpa and Tulu are some of the languages the primers are available in.
• “Schools are encouraged to promote the use of these primers among teachers and students to develop strong language skills in their native language,
• There is also an inherent challenge:
  • Including the availability of skilled teachers capable of teaching in multilingual settings, for implementing the policy of teaching in local languages.

Prelims Takeaway

• NEP, 2020
• Education Sector