The concept of core elements in the curriculum reflects the principle of .............. in curriculum.
Centralizing tendency
The National Policy on Education (1986) laid down a national curricular framework containing a common core along with flexible components. Ten core elements such as India's freedom struggle, constitutional obligations, national identity, cultural heritage, egalitarianism, environment protection and the small family norm were to run through all school curricula.
Because the same core elements are prescribed from the national level for every state and every stage of schooling, the concept reflects a centralizing tendency in curriculum, i.e. a move towards central direction of what all children must study, while the remaining components are left to local decision.
Common heritage is only one of the core elements, not the principle behind them; equality and uniformity describe outcomes, whereas the policy explicitly allows flexibility in the non-core part, so the curriculum is not made fully uniform.
Hence, the answer is Centralizing tendency.
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