As reported CBSE is reducing syllabus in social sciences, comprising History, Geography, Political Science and Economics, and has asked ninth and tenth graders and teaching faculty to provide feedback via an online questionnaire.
“The CBSE has received a number of requests to reduce the social science syllabus in classes IX and X,”said Sadhna parashar, Academic Director, CBSE.
There is a feedback form consisting 14 question, where CBSE has asked students about the number of lectures allocated to the subject every week, the most challenging aspect of the subject (volume/ concepts), and the need to reduce the syllabus and so on.
Seema Raina, a social science teacher for classes IX and X at The Orchid School, said, “The social sciences syllabus is crammed and enormous.
Varied topics like the French and Russian Revolutions, the rise of Nazism, conceptual learning like pastoralists in the Modern world, power-sharing mechanisms in democracy et al cannot be taught on a peripheral basis.”
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