Mainstreaming Health and Physical Education in CBSE
Curriculum reform is a global issue and drives education policy directives around the world. The broad framework is usually provided by a national apex body, the narrower focus is around the syllabi based on the disciplines and the learning outcomes expected at age appropriate levels. 1.1 RATIONALE 1.1.1 Health and Physical Education is concerned with total health of the learner and the community. Besides physical health, it includes mental and emotional health of the learners. Health is often a state of physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. 1.1.2 The aim of Mainstreaming Health and Physical Education is to enable the student to attain an optimum state of health, by incorporating each of the aforementioned aspects. 1.1.3 In this respect, it is a truism to say that the practice of healthy living will serve as the foundation for Physical Education. It is envisaged that any effort to promote aesthe
