Article Title :
PERSPECTIVE OF TEACHER EDUCATION IN INDIA

Author Name :
Prabhunath Singh

Keyword :
Teacher Education Institutions (TEIs), National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE)

Publisher :
Politic India Publication

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Abstract :
Teacher Education of India is almost in shambles. Mushrooming growth in Teacher Education Institutions (TEIs) was experienced during last fifteen years. Growth of TEIs also remained regionally unbalanced and did not equally cater to all levels of education. Nearly 90 percent of these institutions lie in private self financed sector. These private players are generally guided by commercial and profit making motive in almost every field of their participation. Sudeep Bannerjee Committee was appointed in 2007 to look into bulk recognition of self financed private TEIs in a very short span of time and reports of rampant malpractices followed in these institutions in admissions, teaching and examinations, and to suggest necessary action. The Bannerjee Committee had observed that the functioning of NCTE was not commensurate with the objectives of planned and coordinated development of teacher education and recommended that NCTE should be abolished. The Supreme Court appointed Justice J S Verma Commission on improving teacher education system in the country which submitted its report in August 2012. The commission underlined sad state of affairs of preparing teachers in the country after making a study of large number of TEIs and suggested various measures for strengthening power and functions of NCTE, capacity building of TEIs, changes in curricula of various teacher education programs and reality based linkage between TEIs and schools etc. In the present paper the author has tried to discuss changing state of affairs of teacher education in the country and indentify inherent problems there in. The author has also tried to look into the need of indigenous curricula and increased public investment in education for better inclusivity.