Reading and Reflecting on Texts 📖

(A) Objectives

• Understand different types of Text. 📚
• Reflect upon different types of policy documents. 📄
• Discuss narrative text, autobiographical text, and ethnographical text. 📝

(B) Syllabus

SECTION-A

1. Reading resources: NPE-1986, NCF-2005. 📚
2. Reflection on core elements (NPE-1986, NCF-2005): Aims of education, pedagogy, and evaluation. 🔄

SECTION-B

1. Reading of textbooks (class VIII/IX) – science, social science, mathematics, and languages. 📖
2. Reflection on core elements in the above-stated school textbooks with respect to gender, environment, and health. 💬

Activities

Review and Evaluate any one of the following:

• Learning To Be (UNESCO Report). 📚
• Learning: The treasure within (1996) Learning without Burden. 💡
• Human Development Chapter in Annual Economic Survey (2014-15). 🌍

(C) Books Recommended

1. Grellet, F. (1981). Developing Reading Skills: A practical guide to reading comprehension exercises. Cambridge University Press. 📘
2. Menon, N. (2012). Seeing like a Feminist. India: Penguin. 👀
3. Piaget, J. (1997). Development and learning. In M. Gauvain & M. Colw (Eds.) Readings on the development of children, New York. WH Freeman & Company. 🧠
4. Sabyasachi, B. (1997). The Mahatma and the poet: Letters and debates between Gandhi & Tagore, National Book Trust. 📜
5. Cole (Eds.), Readings on the development, New York, WH Freeman and Company. 📖

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