'Social issues to be included in textbooks'
The government is going to include lessons in the textbooks to impart knowledge and create awareness on various burning social issues from the next academic session, said National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) Chairman Prof Muhammad Mostafa Kamaluddin yesterday.
He said this at a workshop on imparting life skill-based education, organised by NCTB in collaboration with Unicef at a city hotel.
The NCTB chairman, who chaired the workshop, said they are considering incorporation of timely and critical social issues like HIV/AIDS and sexual harassment with appropriate mental development of the young learners.
Other speakers urged the teachers, guardians and government officials to come forward with a view to building a nation without social instability, injustice, and discrimination with physical and mental development of children.
They said the topics of the secondary education level text books should be set up as per their age and their mental growth so that they can grow up as the citizens with sense of social responsibility and sound mentality.
SM Golam Faruque, additional secretary of education ministry, and Prof Shofiqur Rahman, director of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education, also spoke.
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