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KNOW THIS

o CBSE has made Art Education mandatory for classes 1 to 10 from the academic
session 2019-20.

o Two periods of art education are mandatory per week.

o In classes 6 to 8, schools are encouraged to take up culinary art also.

NOTABLE

For more details please refer to:
http://cbseacademic.nic.in/web_material/Circulars/2019/12_Circular_2019.pdf

and
Guidelines on Art-Integrated Learning Circular no. Acad 22/2019 dated 18.04.2019

6.6 Inter-Disciplinary Approach:

6.6.1 Meaning: CHAPTER 6 : PEDAGOGY

• Inter-disciplinary approach entails the use and integration of methods and analytical

frameworks from more than one academic discipline or subject to examine a theme,
issue, question or topic.

• Interdisciplinary education makes use of disciplinary approaches to examine

topics, but pushes beyond by taking insights from a variety of relevant disciplines,
synthesizing their contribution to understanding, and then integrating these ideas
into a more complete, and hopefully coherent, framework of analysis

6.6.2 Extracts from NCF 2005 on the use of Inter-Disciplinary Approach:

Following are extracts from NCF 2005, which highlight the use of Inter-disciplinary

approach:

• The capabilities, practices, and skills of understanding are what we seek to develop
through the school curriculum. Some of them readily lend themselves to being

formulated as ‘subjects’ of study such as mathematics, history, science, and the visual
arts. Others, such as ethical understanding, need to be interwoven into subjects and
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