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INTEGRATION OF CULTURE EDUCATION IN THE SCHOOL CURRICULUM
(THE ROOT OF CULTURAL CURRICULUM IN INDIA)

Committee of Central Advisory Board of Education Ministry of Human
Resource Development Government of India 2005

CONTENTS
Introduction
Processes Adopted
• Acquisition of Aesthetic and Cultural Sensitivity
  Major decisions taken
  Cultural curriculum in India should be geared towards
  Suggestions
  Members of the cabe committee on “integration of culture education In the school curriculum”

Introduction

All of us are concerned about diminishing moral values and the growing intolerance among communities, castes and groups that make up our great nation. What is depressing is the sad reality that spread of education in the country has made no serious difference in this regard. In fact, there are at least some of us who suspect that the perfunctory education provided through our schools may have, to some extent, contributed to this distressing situation. Our school education relies almost exclusively on predetermined sets of ‘competencies’ to be acquired through rote memorization, thereby denying our children opportunities to exercise their innate thinking capabilities and their
Individual creativity. Our classroom pedagogy deprives children opportunities to learn in a collaborative, reflective manner that would have at least helped them acquire basic social skills. Our outdated system of examination has contributed to a mad rush for ‘ranks’, ‘seats’ and ‘jobs’…making us wonder whether we have, at some point in time, lost sight of the real objectives of education. We are bothered about the declining awareness among our children about their own cultural backgrounds. Another cause for concern is the fact that education is looked upon by marginalized sections of the society to get ‘cultured’ in order to ‘get out of the rut’. Literacy, while opening up the entire world to these sections may also alienate them from their basic cultural strengths. We...