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that's the g 7 really even matter anymore. who's more electable, joe biden? or donald trump, our journalistic in the media, undermining our society. can americans cross their supreme court is not corrupt. the quizzical look us politics often line the high i 70. okay. sent to watching the stream. the school year in india has just got started and for students who are and 16 years and, and that curriculum will be somewhat smooth. and we tell you what will be that serious evolution gone. climate change issues gone, and also some references to india's muslim historical pos has also. com. now the educated ministry says this is to help students who are still struggling because of

the cause of con demik and the forwarding behind government. critics say that this is the police as eyes ation of textbooks. what do you say? please wait in a comment section on youtube is life with us to day 3 guessing india in the database for stage as well. a journalist who's been writing about india's textbook revisions for alex's era in virginia, vada buzz fence, oregon t a profess of chemistry at s. r. m. university. and implicitly sit down, shrew akashic found, of the young india foundation. get to have the overhead gas. i am going to start with a statistics that will make to stop and pools a slow youngsters age 12 to 18. so that's cause the 6 to 1230 percent of the syllabus this year has this up yet. now the process of coming back

on the social scripts, good, excuse me, school syllabus. it's been, it's happened since the pandemic and last year of the material for the policy, it was removed to help the children kind of catch up because they, for them behind tricity is now i, i reference a couple of things that will be in the syllabus. us against is at the moment what has gone and has cause control for c to um, you know, actually it's not just the, the seo that we have seen division in syllabus. but it is happening for quite some time, especially after queen b on woods initially. but they did was that they made the subjects like democracy are um on the other important subjects, which is, which is related to india as most and fast. they made it optional for students to study like it was not tested in the examination. but it was still in the textbooks . however, after the cool within they make in the name of nationalization,

they even paused it from the textbooks. and even though the, for the degree to the list of material that was moved in the name of national nation, but they have been so didn't remove those, which is not even listed to the public domain. one means mahatma gandhi was the father of indian nation. the information about his assassin was not listed in the nation is dash and irish next essays. similarly in y'all's force education, minutes to him on, on, on, uh, his name's have been removed in the textbook. it was also not listed in the nation i vision exercise. so i know those changes have been ad hoc, a lot of changes have been announced, and that even gives it a bit of chevy. i think if they have to do it, if there is a process, why the people who are consulted can to give us the name of scientists or educate those who have the commander that evolution should be removed again to give us the

names of people who have the commended that pediatric dba should be removed from the curriculum, but they are not able to produce any of these things. they don't say that yes, this is for lowering down the board, not students after to high. she was offended me, but again, there's not enough beat in that argument checking to saddam show, how a student's bearing off the pen democrat started in 2020 an hour, 2023. what has that down to a student population, housing managing to study to yes, i mean, absolutely. so i'm actually about 500 yards away, right next door to a cbs, the school that i have, you know, growing acquainted for, since, you know, being brought up here in the summer, even in the winters. but the thing is, it's not just a post pandemic, they just issue of the burden of trying to memorize and understand a breast of information and not to actually digest it. but the method of

regurgitation has been, you know, and suing. and there have been so many players and stakeholders have been trying to bring reform to this and i think would be any b 2020 that came into kind of version after several years of kind of back and forth in this engaging with stakeholders. one of the biggest push was to decrease that mental workload that the students at a very young age had been facing not just now, not just after 2019 or 2014, but consistently. and one of the things that you know, that we understood was, is that most of the practitioners on ground. so i spoke with the principal of the school next door, right before this interview in the morning. and it's summer vacations right now, but they're prepping for next years. yeah. 2 really big things came out. what was that? why is the controversy? and it was like, what do you mean? it's all over the news. it's like, but as practitioners we've been going through this for the past 2025 years,

he's been teaching at the school and now at an administrative leadership, or i think he said 25 years. he said every year we have revisions. we're told to say this told to do this, etc. the implementation of it. i think it depends on the social fashion. as up with saddam should all the revisions on as controversial as taking out the see we have a solution because it's that's a lot of, of information for the students to take it. all they is controversial is maybe taking out climate change issues. i think being the revisions for the past 25 years . so, you know, that's really interesting. and i think there's been a lot of back and forth in this. i don't think climate change itself from what i understood from the principal was actually been introduced until very recently, and then taking it out in some aspects. so i think there's been a back and forth since i would say 2004 in these issues. and i will agree that you know, something is instrumental is evolution being taken out is symbolic, and also controversial. but let's compare it. it's been happening so much. so i also, you know, study that to see the school, but also in alabama. and i was,

you know, i taught accidents in a public school. i wasn't taught darby and theory by the way, until i think, 11 through 12th grade, much later on. and even though i disappointed my mom, i'm not becoming a doctor. i still turned out a lot of sound like but i think, but i think there's always been the issue. yeah. overall. boss of new teach. yeah, i'm a string so i wouldn't go i thought it took about 5. but 1st of all, from a teacher's perspective, what does rationalization really mean from a teacher's perspective? yeah. oh, 1st of all, i would like to share my experience. for the past 2 weeks, i have been interacting with so many students. i hope connected to my life examination during which i was discussing with the students, watch on the problem that crazy all started up under me. so most of the students are on the union that the basic understanding that like in front of them. and so

some students i see that they don't understand what is it i say, what is it that is, what does that make them or does a non budget? so these kind of basic understanding that exactly yes and yeah that they want to buy, hug the that saying that the industry is all about them. what are they shouldn't because they need to buy out the arctic table. they need to buy. how are you back to those and so on. so that's the good off can you see do do a lot of and then what are the ones that you tell them out? how do you encourage them? yes, i'm coming to that so that i think the names of the elements are all the means. yes, it all said we should focus on the course and show concepts and principles and how they can use that to solve problems that out. also, they can use those ones actually through their thinking abilities. so this is one of the price for the national education policy. so they say that they can shut off . well, the content focus on food, essentially the basic principles and concepts and then each of them hold up later

and solve the problem. so this is a good thing when i want to say like, this is my personal experience. i have to be done with the students in last it to be and many of this opinion that the lines of the band to make their learning support a lot. i'm i, i want to ask you a chemistry professor about some of the topics that has been rationalize and i still want to off what that really means from a teacher's perspective. but let's look at the topics of been comped, some of the 10 a science and mathematics. so get 1016 year olds. so let's take a look here. a pollution we biology. the periodic table as backgrounds was telling us a pie psycho or in the theory and those have gone. do you think that's gonna help your students plus lots a particularly wonderful that's on the last page. yes. so as i have said, instead of just asking them to memorize these 1st focus on what is the concept of

the, what is on the main concept, we end up last if occasion of these that still existing at plus 9 o'clock 10 levels . so once they get used to the concepts and principles, then it is not good for them to think of that. ok, can we classify these elements? they can come up with the classification. so this is what i'm used to raise specializations on the if you look at this beautiful tables, i've just put up now it says, i'm sure it gets cut, going back to being a 15 year old at school. you look through this now, you know, just memorized. you know, the entire periodic table, but you'll students do not yeah. how do you and i don't know. i don't remember all the depends on the but i just know some, some of the agencies for anyone who remember all the elements of the. uh huh. so that's what i'm saying. instead of just asking them to memorize the concept that the link long, so please elements housing, same number on that. instead of going to be the best be do and they have

a similar property. this is on the lane. if we teach them in class, then i think then they can construct that one more than awesome. so then she go ahead. i think bus one has this interesting point where there is an evolution in terms of how teaching is being done in india. we, you know, in the west have had a very practical exposure whether it's, you know, physically using our hands and the things that we're doing in a chemistry lab or a physics lab, or whether it's the actually been academic curriculum that were taught. and the experience that i've had growing up in people that i've spoken to within and and, you know, just be investigated or more able to answer this. you know, it's a very, based on what the thing was memorization. how do i make sure that i know i'm sure the people to, i'm sorry for the jumping in between, but i would also like to add that to one of the major points that i want to bring in is that the indian government has not put forward any names of people who have

recommended these changes? i'm diseases behind it. yes, they are saying it for this, for the new education policy after the cool they, but at least they should make means of the people public who have recommended these changes and by they have done so. because every time they have been changes in mt off the books, it has photos a suit that has a product that has been a process in the last leading economic commissions actually involved in the process does to be, does discussion have the discussion that on the 1st day of the know there was a textbook committee that looked at the textbooks and then revise them who was on that textbook committee. so uh, textbook committee comprise of the immune and people, but i confirmed with all of them, nobody was informed that these changes are being made on the next step because our committee members told me that they would not get the new book. right. so the changes have been made already. this is this new school yet already i left the best

spot to put his hands out like were at school, but have to have your hand is out. yeah. yeah. i had one kid actually tell me like to add the to and see on the stage they descended getting strategy to other students through their learning. do that all set up itself for me and that uh, in the process of formulating completely new books based on the conditions in the special education and all right, let's talk then about the impact this has happened. coughing, having all students and what teachers think about this. so this is professor emeritus by how, who spoke to us a little bit earlier. have a listen, have a look a as in golf mind, he's actually attacking science and that's not the market for the earlier minister of education. actually criticized evolution saying that he has a c, a monkey funding english

b and ends question. this is not something that should be gotten with to the younger people off of this country. and i think the government government is trying to move back towards, in my apologies, in to a hit scheme, the scriptures to provide you rational thinking for the next generation, which is extremely dangerous to that. so what i was thing to do was maybe we're going back to the old very uh, classic conversation, religion versus science. if that's what's going on that go ahead. you know, i, i, i hope not. i sincerely hope not because then we're in a trajectory that we don't want to be in. i do think that, you know, there is a controversy and as you know, the mergers professor said, you know, there have been political figures who have made these very inappropriate. i would say remarks at certain points, but i think at the end of the day,

can we trace this back, let's say to those 2 certain politicians making those remarks and the juncture of removing it now? because i think the compulsions of doing so at this point are not because of this push to have a certain uh, you know, i do all the g or framework in mind as is unfortunately very, very common. i mean, yeah, whenever there's any to but sorry for jumping in, but i would like to pointed out this is what as a z to actually to put it on the will flush to report that evolution was removed. and the movie, again, just a unit after the statement of in the us form education minister who said this particular statement that nobody has seen a mind coming from an a product and. ringback i have it. yeah. and how beautiful, you know, just in the 1st just to finish a sentence and then you go ahead for us to finish it. oh, you did not speak. you know,

i'm just going to new. so you can not the statement of india education minister lately. he hits the department, he's making that statement. and after making that statement, that particular concept was removed. for us, it was removed from the examination, then it was completely pushed on the books. nobody has come up with an explanation why that has been done so far. i'm was that i noticed a non me evidence to that in indian science congress. the profess, it actually said that the you, what is the issue with the overseas? that vision was dean. god, nation in certain forms is the better to do than ever you dawkins evolution to him . so that is that his face between religion and science existing at the same time. that's fine. i'm going to have you come in here. go ahead. yeah. so i don't think the daughter we see the ocean is not the 2nd issue, fit to glasgow. so this is one point i disagree with me. and then the, let's see. so she was saying the sure i trust the right business that's,

that's fine. that nonsense finishes his full and then you can come right back. so she also said that uh so one for a visit. important to note that the show that i also have assuming that i yeah. so you've seen that idea, then why would anyone want to remove the concept overland? all right, so let me just show, yeah, the ones they just need to show i only assistance, i can keep up with that conversation. this is in search, so this is the education body who um, sets the curriculum on a country level on a national level. and they are pushing back with some of the complaints about this rationalization of the curriculum. for instance, a periodic table has not been removed from school education, but is in fact available in great detail in unit 3 and then they go on. so it's really about the age of the students, rather than the content of the curriculum. but there are some issues that

some teachers are bringing up. they seem to be stuck on this idea about evolution on our, in since they should be removed from the curriculum at age 16 and, and this is associate professor vadlira who taught us a little bit early, have a list and have a look to remove the concept of evolution from, by the just textbooks up to past tense. there wouldn't be many students who would never study biology ever after that. and to go to high school, they chose to going to different disciplines. and some students that have a very, very distorted, very incomplete understanding of the contract that dies on by to get together. that's right for you explained how the whole student is going to really help them to understand the science before they have to just memorize a whole periodic table. but there must be some very basic parts of sites that they need to know in order to understand chemistry. what about the loops? it's too early, right?

um and look at, there has been a constant process. what's happened is that there has been a substantial increase of failure and drop out rates posts, colbin, not just in primary education, but senior secondary as well in when you know a lot of this issue comes in. so i think i agree. when trustees, speaking about, you know, the causation is here, the provoking of an idea. and the after effect of it, you know, being this included in, in, in some of these textbooks is clear. you can, you know, segregated. but there's also a nuance of the fact that this isn't post just 2020, to the statement being made right. it was a concentrated effort by both successive and the government from 2014 onwards to create a new natural education policy. and one of the biggest things that they wanted to tackle was the mental workload that students had to face. right. so they've been working on this since 2014 the, at our, the ministry that was been changed into the education ministry had this has their

focal agenda. so if a minister makes that statement, which you know is not ok, right? but at the same time, it's what, what you're thinking is, this is a much concentrated effort, and it's a more positive effort, a holistically, if you think about it, to make sure that we don't have an increase of youth suicide based off of education . because at this point and yet does have that, right? it's a, it's a consummate effort to make sure that instead of just being a, uh, what you know, my mom calls them are or just memorization of education. we have people that are actually critically speaking and listening existing, incredible point when, when a, in his article as well. and what he's talking about is, is that the understanding the fundamentals is substantially more or important. and it gives you a more holistic approach. and to other subjects that i think is we do less than just the subject itself. it would be substantially good. but the problem is the, the issue is, is that what is being taken out? so if you have a substantial amount of content being taken, now that is part of

a certain identity or part of certain political narrative, then there are reforms that need to be made in that. but what i want to stress, again, that's not something that's new to and yet it's been happening every successive government. and the biggest failure though, because we, you know, we harp on this controversy, but we move on to the next one who harms who's our most students. for the past 20 years. the principal that i spoke with was saying not a single person, not a single student or a year has had the same curriculum in consequence really. right. so every single years, no one that they're really trying hard. okay. sure thing. interesting. and it is possible for 2 things to happened at the same time for modernization and, and the education to understand that students learning a different way. as for the textbooks to be political in nature, both of those things can happen at the same time. one more profess, i want to bring into the conversation and just as a professor biology has a listen and have a look. the scientific community in india is opposing this distinction

because the lack of dates for the to the idea that we should've been standing the week of the development of a scientific progression of thinking to learn think it will lucian, one use to know that the word has not been the same all through history. we will get to know that organisms evolve, evolve performing normal one process. we don't need divine intervention. we get to know that the whole of human a, d, e to speak, feel free is and color on the scene species. and all of these are the essential components of development of your scientific ment of mind. all right, guess i'm going to quiz you immediately. i'm going to give you a question of full and you have to come back to me straight away asthma and says india is totally changing the concepts of mobiles and the muslims sultan's from history of thoughts tricity in a sentence very quickly. and i think, you know, it's the, i'm so what is happening with the students because instead of actually being guided

and the positive be the don't know what's being told on them and what ok removed. all right, so will says indian is backsliding in the eyes of the world of games through these proposals. that's controversial. sanction, quick response back please. i think we've had consistent back fighting. and what we need to do is reform the system so that the government can be competitive. and at cdc curriculum, with this onslaught of ed tech that the rationalization of occurs, etc, to give more access to the students in a more equitable manner. because that's a band spots h in the periodic table of elements. what does it stand for? me? what this means then for a video. oh, my goodness. all right, 2 out of 2. excellent. thank you so much of that, really understanding helping us understand what rationalization means in india,

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