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The
National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) is
an apex resource organization set up by the Government of India,
with headquarters at New Delhi, to assist and advise the Central
and State Governments on academic matters related to school
education.
The NCERT provides academic and technical support for
improvement of school education through its constituents, which
are as follows:
PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES
The NCERT undertakes the following programmes and activities.
Research
Being an apex national body for
research in school education, the NCERT performs the important
functions of conducting and supporting research and offering
training in educational research methodology.
Besides conducting in-house
research, the NCERT supports research programmes of other
institutions/organisations by providing financial assistance and
academic guidance. Assistance is given to scholars for
publication of their Ph.D. theses. Research fellowships are
offered to encourage studies in school education to create a
research base for developmental, training and extension
programmes and to create a pool of competent research workers.
It also organises courses for educational research workers. The
NCERT also organises educational research in the country. It has
computer facilities for storing, processing and retrieval of
data. It collaborates with international agencies in
inter-country research, projects.
Development
Developmental activities in school education constitute an
important function of the NCERT. The major developmental
activities include development and renewal of curricula and
instructional materials for various levels of school education
and making them relevant to changing needs of children and
society. The innovative developmental activities include
development of curricula and instructional materials in school
education in the area of pre-school education, formal and
non-formal education, vocationalisation of education and teacher
education. Developmental activities are also undertaken in the
domains of educational technology, population education, and
education of the disabled and other special groups.
Training
Another important dimension of NCERT’s activities is the
pre-service and in-service training of teachers at various
levels; pre-primary, elementary, secondary and higher secondary,
and also in such areas as vocational education, educational
technology, guidance and counselling, and special education.
Extension
The NCERT has comprehensive
extension programmes in which various Departments of the NIE,
RIEs, CIET, PSSCIVE are engaged in various ways. It works in
close collaboration with various agencies and institutions in
the states and also works extensively with Extension Service
Departments and Centres in teacher training colleges and schools
with the purpose of providing assistance to various categories
of personnel, including teachers, teacher educators, educational
administrators, question-paper setters, textbook writers, etc.
Special programmes are organised for the education of the
disadvantaged sections of the society. The extension programmes
cover all States and Union Territories of the country.
Publication and Dissemination
The NCERT publishes textbooks for
different school subjects for Classes I to XII. It also brings
out workbooJks, teachers guides, supplementary readers, research
reports, etc. In addition, it publishes instructional materials
for the use of teacher educators, teacher trainees and
in-service teachers. These are made available to state level
agencies for adoption and/or adaptation. The textbooks are
published in English, Hindi and Urdu.
For dissemination of educational
information, or the NCERT publishes six journals: The Primary
Teacher is published both in English and Hindi and aims
at giving meaningful and relevant educational inputs to primary
school teachers for direct use in the classroom; School
Science serves as an open forum for discussion on various
aspects of science education; Journal of Indian
Education provides a forum for encouraging original and
critical thinking in education through discussion on current
educational issues; Indian Educational Reviewcontains
research articles and provides a forum for researchers in
education; and BharatiyaAdhunik Shiksha, published
in Hindi, provides a forum for encouraging critical thinking in
education on contemporary issues and for dissemination of
educational problems and practices. Besides these, a house
journal called NCERT Newsletter is also published in
English and Hindi. The title of the Hindi version of the
newsletter is Shaikshik Darpan.
Exchange Programmes
The NCERT interacts with
international organisations such as UNESCO, UNICEF, UNDP, NFPA
and the World Bank to study specific educational problems and to
arrange training programmes for personnel from developing
countries. It is one of the Associated Centres of APEID. It also
acts as the Secretariat of the National Development Group (NDG)
for Educational Innovations.. On request, the faculty members
are deputed to participate in international conferences,
seminars, workshops, symposia, etc.
For more details please visit
www.ncert.nic.in
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