Curriculum Studies Questions and Answers

Answer: D

The answer is Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct.

The National Curriculum Framework for School Education 2023 points out that different classroom practices, directly and indirectly, do promote different values, so Statement I, which denies this, is incorrect.

Its own example is Statement II: if students always sit facing the blackboard, the arrangement conveys that the blackboard and the teacher are the primary source of knowledge.

Answer: B

The answer is Only i and iii.

The National Curriculum Framework for the Foundational Stage, 2022, asks that nutritious mid-day meals be served under safe and hygienic conditions (i), and suggests that teachers use stories and play to introduce the ideas of safe and unsafe touch (iii).

Statement ii is wrong because corporal punishment and any physical violence against children are prohibited, and statement iv is wrong because schools must keep parents' addresses and phone numbers up to date for children's safety.

Answer: D

The answer is Only i, ii, iii and iv.

The NCF for School Education 2023 names mutual trust and respect, openness, communication and collaboration, care, and responsibility as the core characteristics of the strong and inspiring relationships a school must build among students, teachers and parents.

Superiority runs against every one of these, so all the options that include v are wrong.

The framework treats these relationships as part of the school culture that shapes students' values and behaviour.

Answer: A

The answer is Statement I and Statement II both are correct.

The NCF for School Education 2023 notes that schools communicate a great deal through symbols, and describes a symbol as any visual sign, such as a picture, motto or display, that conveys what the school values as important.

Both statements follow the framework, so the options marking either one incorrect are wrong.

The framework treats symbols as part of a school's culture, which teaches values as surely as the formal syllabus does.

Answer: D

NCF 2005 came with 21 position papers.

In preparing the National Curriculum Framework 2005, NCERT set up 21 National Focus Groups on areas such as teaching of mathematics, science, Indian languages, examination reforms and education for peace. Each produced a position paper, published along with the framework.

18, 19 and 25 do not match the number of focus groups.

The position papers covered subjects such as the teaching of mathematics, science and social sciences, habitat and learning, and the problems of scheduled caste and scheduled tribe children.

Answer: B

The one that is not a type of curriculum is Model curriculum.

Elliot Eisner described three curricula that every school teaches: the explicit curriculum, stated openly in syllabuses; the implicit (hidden) curriculum, learned from the school's culture and practices; and the null curriculum, what schools leave out.

A 'model curriculum' is a sample document, not one of these types.

Eisner set out these three curricula in The Educational Imagination (1979).

Answer: C

The school curriculum reflects the culture of the society. It is a selection of the knowledge, values and skills that society wants the new generation to have, so it mirrors the society's culture. The family, education and the school are not the source of the culture the curriculum reflects. A curriculum is a plan of what the school will teach, and the plan comes from what the society values and wants passed on, so it reflects the culture of the society. The family, education and the school are not the source of that culture.

Answer: B

A curriculum is a complete set of organised experiences in the school. The word covers everything a school plans for learners, including subjects, activities, co-curricular work and methods, and not merely a list of topics.

General education is a wider and vaguer term. A body of knowledge describes a discipline or a syllabus, which is only one part of a curriculum. A part of thinking has no standard meaning in this connection. The definition as the whole planned set of experiences is the one used in teacher-education texts, and it matches the key.

Answer: A

Curriculum is considered the heart of any learning institution. It is the plan that shapes what is taught, how it is taught and how it is judged, so an institution's work depends on it in the way a body depends on its heart.

The other options are not how the curriculum is described. It is planned by educators, curriculum committees and boards, not organised by the students, and not by parents or by one scholar. The key follows the commonly used description of curriculum as the heart of the school's programme.

Answer: B

The key credits the statement to Cunningham. In Indian teacher-education texts the curriculum is described as a tool in the hands of the artist (the teacher) to mould his material (the pupil) according to his ideal (the objective) in his studio (the school), and this image is attributed to Cunningham.

Gordon Allport is known for personality theory, C. V. Good for the Dictionary of Education, and R. K. Mukherjee for work on Indian education and history, so none of them is the source of the image. I could not trace the primary text to check the first name given in the option, but the surname matches the usual attribution and nothing found contradicts the key.