PREPARED BY FOUZIYA

INPUTS FOR THE NEW CURRICULUM UNDER KCF 2007

• Kerala has long heritage of educational reforms initiated by various

social movements

• We have been carrying out a variety of quality initiatives under

DPEP and later SSA for the last one decade

• We had derived much insight through our field experience

involving new textbook and teacher support material in tune with

the emerging paradigm and trying out them at various levels

PILLARS OF KCF

Critical pedagogy

Issue based curriculum

Social constructivism

CRITICAL PEDAGOGY• Assumption of cr itical pedagogy• All education is inherently political and all pedagogy must be

aware of this condition• Ground and eucational vision of justice and equality should

ground all education.• issues, of race, class, gender, sexuality, religion, and physical

ability are all important domains of oppression and critical and anti hegemonic action

• Schools must not blame the students for their failures

• Teachers should become scholars and a researches

• All positions including critical pedagogy must be

problematized and questioned.

• Education should promote emancipator change and

cultivation of the intellect –these goals should never be in

conflict, they should be synergic

• Education often reflects the interest and needs of new

modes of colonialism and empires.

ISSUE BASED CURRICULUM

• Using issues in the class room allows teacher to foster the students skills of critical analysis and life long learning that they need to deal with the changing nature of science in society. our social life consist of physical, social and cultural spheres. each of thee spheres has numerous problems. All these issues have a general bearing on all spheres of social life.

ISSUE DOMAINS Lack of scientific land water management Issues related to agriculture Lack of cohesive universal vision Lack of human resource development Lack of cultural consciousness Lack of eco-friendly industrialization and

urbanizationThe issues of marginalized Issues related to health and public health

SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVISMsocial constructivism is a sociological theory of knowledge according to which human development is socially situated and knowledge is constructed through interaction with others.teachers apply this model by setting up a ‘zone of proximal development(zpd), that is an area of activity were, with the aid of teacher or more knowledgable peers, students are able to do what they cannot achieve alone(vygotsky 1986