CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Long walks to school. Heavy school bags. Lack of basic infrastructure, including support books for reading and writing. Badly designed furniture that gives children inadequate back support and cramps their legs and knees.

Detailed explanation-2: -According to NCF 2005, learning of English aims to subsume the languages of home, larger kinship group, street, and neighborhood, i.e. languages(s) that a child acquires naturally from her/his home and societal environment.

Detailed explanation-3: -NCF(National Curriculum Framework) 2005 is one of the four NCFs published in India by NCERT. It seeks to provide a framework for the betterment of educational purposes and experiences. NCF 2005 has recommended that: no homework should be given up to class ll and two hours a week as from class lll.

Detailed explanation-4: -The NCF 2005 has based its policies on previous government reports on education, such as Learning Without Burden and National Policy of Education 1986–1992, and focus group discussion.

Detailed explanation-5: -The NCF 2005 has recommended five guiding principles for curricular development-a) Connecting knowledge to life outside school, b) Ensuring that learning shifts from rote methods, c) Enriching curriculum so that it goes beyond text books, d) Making examinations more flexible and integrating them with class room life.