NEP and local context in curriculum – UGC NET Question

NEP 2020 highlights that learning becomes meaningful when linked to students’ surroundings. It encourages textbooks, teachers and projects to draw on local geography, culture, crafts and problems. This also strengthens community connections and pride.

Option A:
This option expresses the contextualised, place-based pedagogy promoted in the policy.

Option B:
Ignoring local realities can make learning abstract and alienating.

Option C:
Banning local references contradicts NEP’s cultural and linguistic commitments.

Option D:
International cases are useful but cannot replace local content entirely.