CBSE MULLS ART INTEGRATED PROJECT WORK FOR STUDENTS

New Delhi, May 15: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has decided to introduce art-integrated project work for classes

1 to 10 from this academic session to make teaching and learning competency based and joyful.

As part of this, at least one art-integrated project in each subject shall be taken up by all students of classes 9 and 10 from the academic session 2020-21, and students of classes 1 to 8 will also be encouraged to take at least one artintegrated project (trans-disciplinary project) in a given academic year, the board said in a letter to schools.

The CBSE has directed schools that for classes 1 to 8, art-integrated projects should be of transdisciplinary nature.

In at least one project, students across classes till grade 10 will have to integrate any art form of the paired state or UT, as defined under the ‘Ek Bharat Shrestha Bharat’ Programme.

For example students in Delhi schools must take up a project that is based on the art form of Sikkim. The list of paired states and UTs is available on CBSE website.

The education board had last year announced mandatory introduction of art-education or artintegrated learning for all classes.

“It has been decided to introduce art-integrated project work for classes

1 to 10 to promote artintegrated learning in schools to make teaching and learning competency-based and joyful,” the CBSE said in the letter.

“The project work can include more than one subject and this can be considered for internal assessment in the subjects concerned. For classes 9 and 10, the students will take up the art-integrated project work as subject enrichment activity in all the subjects for internal assessment,” it said.

The board has clarified that projects have to be taken up in an eco-friendly manner, using local resources without any financial burden to parents or guardians. —