CBSE Class 11 Heritage Crafts Syllabus

Introduction

India is the only country in the world with a unbroken, living vibrant tradition of crafts. While agriculture employs the largest number of people in India, the crafts sector is next and sustains over 20 million practitioners. The wide geographic spread embraces all of India and covers a huge gamut of widely differing work structure and cultures. Crafts communities, using similar materials that range from clay to precious metals, work with widely differing techniques and technologies to create a rich variety of forms.

Acknowledging the importance of handicrafts in India the National Curriculum Framework – 2005 sought to integrate it into the school curriculum and formed a National Focus Group on Heritage Crafts. The Focus Group submitted a position paper that includes several recommendations and concluded that Indian craft and its millions of practicing craftspeople are a huge and important resource of traditional knowledge and indigenous technologies that could add value to the educational system in a number of ways. It was suggested that Indian Crafts should be taught as a theoretical social science with a strong component of field study and applied creative activity.

With the learning of crafts traditions many skills could be developed among the students. These include the consideration of relationship between the student and his/her environment and the inter-dependence of: societal skills, information processing skills, reasoning skills, enquiry skills, creative skills, entrepreneurial skills and a work related culture.

The Objectives

To impart an all rounded and holistic education that equips the Indian youth of today to face challenges of a global and rapidly changing world, while preserving their own cultural assets, traditions and values this new subject area will be introduced for senior secondary level in schools with the following objectives:

- To understand the critical role of the crafts community and its integral relationship to the Indian society.

- To enable students to understand the relationship between economics, culture and aesthetics,

- To enable students to explore the linkages between environment, craft traditions and society through field studies,

- To develop a respect for the diversity of Indian craft traditions and to uphold the dignity of its practitioners by understanding the difficulties that they face,

- To introduce Indian culture through the crafts, so that school students appreciate the variety of skills and expressions of the Indian artist

- To provide students a creative aesthetic experience of the unique visual and material culture of India and develop values of conservation, protection of the environment, resources and heritage of the country,

- To enable students to understand the relationship between tradition and contemporary trends, form and function, creator and consumer.

- To understand the processes of creating a craft object from start to finish,

- To equip students with the tools to extend craft traditions to wider applications through applied crafts,

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