Abstract

Green skills are an important prerequisite for transitions to sustainability. Development of green skills helps in establishing the framework for building a sustainable future. It further encourages learners to act and behave in a way that promotes sustainable development. Adaptation of analytical approaches to global environmental issues and their resolutions can only be achieved by developing green skills among learners. Including consciousness about environmental issues in the education system can be an aspect of promoting green skills and it can be achieved at the ground level by including related concepts in textbooks. New NCERT textbooks based on the recommendation of NEP 2020 and NCF-SE 2023 tries to capture the essence of education for sustainable development. Keeping the same in mind, this paper tries to identify teaching-learning material and platform provided by NCERT Science textbook of class 6^th in order to develop green skills among students. Content analysis technique was used to fulfill the objective. Data obtained were analyzed by using thematic analysis technique and themes were identified. Key findings of the study suggested that new NCERT Science books is designed to facilitate a platform for instructions and hands-on activities that can help in the development of green skills among students

Keywords: Green skills, sustainability, development of skills, NCERT, science textbook, environment, content analysis