{"id":153588,"date":"2021-12-15T19:58:02","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T14:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=153588"},"modified":"2021-12-15T20:00:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T14:30:46","slug":"losing-the-art-of-critical-thinking-and-and-that-cbse-question-and-what-it-says-about-our-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/losing-the-art-of-critical-thinking-and-and-that-cbse-question-and-what-it-says-about-our-time\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cLosing the art of critical thinking and \u201d and \u201cThat CBSE question and what it says about our time\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">News:\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Recently CBSE has to face some opposition regarding some of the question that appeared in its Board question Paper.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">What were these instances<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"%1.\" data-font=\"Times New Roman\" data-listid=\"2\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">CBSE had to issue an apology for one of its sociology exam\u00a0question.\u00a0The question read \u201cThe unprecedented scale and spread of anti-Muslim violence in Gujarat in 2002 took place under which government?\u201d<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"%1.\" data-font=\"Times New Roman\" data-listid=\"2\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Another instance where an English comprehension passage of class 10<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">th<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0exam has come under criticism. It faced such backlash because it conveyed a message in support of Patriarchal mindset.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">What can be learned from these incidents?<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">1)\u00a0Educationists and curriculum designers need to acknowledge the importance of emancipatory education.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Emancipatory education is an approach that goes beyond the transfer of knowledge, questioning the dominant structure of socioeconomic and political situation.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">This will enable students to think critically and reflect on the issue of National and International significance.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">2)\u00a0Making education value neutral doesn\u2019t mean accepting the status quo- Education is about asking difficult questions and striving for a just social order.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">For example-<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0A student shouldn\u2019t just\u00a0memorise\u00a0preamble but also be able to reflect upon the meaning of its ideals in real time.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">3)If students are allowed to reflect freely upon ideas from different thinkers, cultures,\u00a0it will enable them\u00a0to build\u00a0their own thought processes.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">It shouldn\u2019t prepare children with a thinking that is appropriate for a post truth society.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Post truth\u00a0society\u00a0(Relating to an environment in which facts are viewed as irrelevant, or less important than personal beliefs and opinions, and emotional appeals are used to influence public opinion).<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Source<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">&#8211; This post is based on the article \u201c<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">Losing the art of critical thinking\u00a0and \u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">published in\u00a0The Hindu\u00a0on<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a015th\u00a0Dec 2021<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">and \u201cThat CBSE question and what it says about our time\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">published in Times of India on\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">15 Dec 2021.<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:\u00a0Recently CBSE has to face some opposition regarding some of the question that appeared in its Board question Paper.\u00a0\u00a0 What were these instances\u00a0 CBSE had to issue an apology for one of its sociology exam\u00a0question.\u00a0The question read \u201cThe unprecedented scale and spread of anti-Muslim violence in Gujarat in 2002 took place under which government?\u201d.\u00a0 Another&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/losing-the-art-of-critical-thinking-and-and-that-cbse-question-and-what-it-says-about-our-time\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201cLosing the art of critical thinking and \u201d and \u201cThat CBSE question and what it says about our time\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10498,10496],"class_list":["post-153588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-the-hindu","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704888806},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}