What are the 12 NCF principles?
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The NCS Grades R – 12 is based on the following principles: ▪ Social transformation; ▪ High knowledge and high skills; ▪ Progression; ▪ Human rights, inclusivity, environmental and social justice; ▪ Credibility, quality and efficiency; ▪ Valuing indigenous knowledge systems; and ▪ Active and critical learning.
What are NCF guidelines?
The NCF Guidelines advise and promote:
- Making learning wholesome, creative and enjoyable.
- Active learning thorough experiential mode.
- Adequate room for voicing children’s thoughts curiosity, and questions in curricular practices.
- Learning engagement for construction of knowledge and fostering of creativity.
What is curriculum according to NCF 2005?

What is the National Curriculum Framework (NCF 2005)? The National Curriculum framework 2005 (NCF 2005) is the set of guidelines for textbooks, syllabus, teaching practices, for schools in India. It was published in 2005 by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) in India.
What are the five guiding principles of NCF 2005?
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.

What is the difference between NCS and caps?
CAPS, the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement, is a revision of the previous NCS (National Curriculum Statement). CAPS gives teachers detailed guidelines of what to teach and assessed on a grade –by- grade and subject-by- subject basis.
How many national curriculum frameworks are there?
four curriculum frameworks
This Curriculum Framework is also seen as a mechanism for strengthening the National System of Education addressing the diversity of our country. Till now, four curriculum frameworks have been brought out i.e., in 1975, 1988, 2000 and 2005.
What are the main features of National Curriculum Framework?
Make sure that students don’t just learn mechanically, without thinking. Enrich the curriculum to make it beyond textbooks. Integrate exams with classroom life to make it more flexible. Cultivate the most important identity by caring about the national democracy.
What are the main objectives of NCF 2005?
The National Curriculum Framework 2005 aims to create a future generation who believe in the democratic system, values and is sensitive towards gender, justice, understands the problems faced by Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, the physically or mentally challenged and actively participates in the economic.
What are the 5 different curriculum approaches?
It follows, therefore, that all curriculum approaches (e.g. behavioural, managerial, systems, academic, humanistic and reconceptualists) must be given their due in Page 2 24 overall curriculum development, and curriculum theory must guide all curriculum activities (Zais, 1976; Marsh, 2004).
What are the disadvantages of caps?
This curriculum has me livid, for FIVE main reasons:
- It is too content heavy.
- There is no time for consolidation.
- It is too rigid.
- Children are over assessed.
- We are not producing thinkers.