Pandit Sunderlal Sharma Central Institute of Vocational Education (PSSCIVE) has taken up an important and innovative project of development of curricula and instructional materials for vocational courses on the advice of the Joint Council of Vocational Education. It proposes to develop/revise competency-based curricula and bring out textbooks. practical manuals, audio and video materials, etc. for every course in existence or proposed to be introduced in the higher secondary vocational education system.
The present manual shows the commendable work done by the Institute in meeting the requirement of instructional materials for students and teachers. Developed through a comprehensive mechanism, the manual is the product of significant contributions made by several experts and others. This has been acknowledged in detail elsewhere in this book. All communications and observations regarding this project should be sent to the Joint Director, PSSCIVE, Bhopal.
The National Policy on Education (1986) envisages that the introduction of a systematic, well planned and rigorously implemented programmes of vocational education is crucial to the proposed educational reorganisation In support of this, a variety of programmes/courses have been introduced under the Centrally Sponsored Schemes at the lower secondary, higher secondary and college levels. The programme at the 2 stage is also in the final stages of completion.
The paucity of appropriate instructional materials (textbooks and practical manuals) is one of the major constraints in the implementation of the programme and a source of great hardship to the students offering vocational courses at the higher secondary stage. To supply these materials, several efforts have been made in the past by the erstwhile Department of Vocationalisation of Education, NCERT, New Delhi and by the state governments. A review of the efforts by PSSCIVE revealed that there was a large gap between the supply of relevant books for the diverse number of vocational courses and the actual requirements.
To bridge this gap, PSSCIVE has taken up a project of developing and publishing a variety of instructional resource materials. The work of this project is being implemented through the mechanism of working groups constituted for each different course. It includes (1) review of existing curricula and instructional materials, (ii) adoption or adaptation of existing books, and (ii) writing of fresh books.
The present book entitled Textile Craft is based on the competency- based curriculum developed by PSSCIVE and fulfils 80 to 90 per cent requirement of any particular state syllabus. The manual has been written by outside authors who are also members of the working group. The book has been reviewed by all the members of the working group.
I am grateful to the authors for the development of this manual and to the members of the Working Group for their candid suggestions during its development and review. Their names are given elsewhere.
I place on record my appreciation of the untiring efforts put in by Dr. Pinki Khanna, Project Coordinator in planning and organising several meetings which led to the final form of this title.
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