While speaking at a function organised to celebrate the foundation day of National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) here on Monday, Irani said, ‘Through textbooks, we will endeavour to ensure that gender sensitisation is an issue which is at the core of our curriculum and that is being started from on Monday.’
She said NCERT is dedicating the entire year to gender sensitisation and inclusion of gender subjects in academic curricula. NCERT council has already undertaken an exhaustive exercise of analysing textbooks from the perspective of gender.
While NCERT has already carried out an analysis of its own textbooks from the gender viewpoint, its department of gender studies has started a similar appraisal of textbooks of the state boards.
The analysis is being done to ensure that there is no gender bias or gender stereotype, said an NCERT official. The Department of Women Studies of NCERT has been recently renamed as the Department of Gender Studies (DGS).
It has developed material to strengthen gender concerns in three volumes – Perspective on Gender and Society, Gender and Schooling Process and Gender and Women’s Empowerment.
In the light of National Curriculum Framework, 2005, the gender concern has been incorporated into the text material of NCERT in all disciplines in an integrated form. Women and child development minister Maneka Gandhi has said that including gender in the curriculum was an important step as there has been a significant focus on gender equality over the years.
The HRD Minister also regretted opposition from some states to the PM’s speech on Teacher’s Day on 5 September.’This particular activity is voluntary in nature. If there is any controversy in this which is being politicised, I would say it is regrettable,’ she told reporters when asked that some states were opposed to the Centre’s directive to all states to ensure the speech is heard by every student.
She said NCERT is dedicating the entire year to gender sensitisation and inclusion of gender subjects in academic curricula. NCERT council has already undertaken an exhaustive exercise of analysing textbooks from the perspective of gender.
While NCERT has already carried out an analysis of its own textbooks from the gender viewpoint, its department of gender studies has started a similar appraisal of textbooks of the state boards.
The analysis is being done to ensure that there is no gender bias or gender stereotype, said an NCERT official. The Department of Women Studies of NCERT has been recently renamed as the Department of Gender Studies (DGS).
It has developed material to strengthen gender concerns in three volumes – Perspective on Gender and Society, Gender and Schooling Process and Gender and Women’s Empowerment.
In the light of National Curriculum Framework, 2005, the gender concern has been incorporated into the text material of NCERT in all disciplines in an integrated form. Women and child development minister Maneka Gandhi has said that including gender in the curriculum was an important step as there has been a significant focus on gender equality over the years.
The HRD Minister also regretted opposition from some states to the PM’s speech on Teacher’s Day on 5 September.’This particular activity is voluntary in nature. If there is any controversy in this which is being politicised, I would say it is regrettable,’ she told reporters when asked that some states were opposed to the Centre’s directive to all states to ensure the speech is heard by every student.