TEDxSPSU was held on March 12, 2011 at Sir Padampat Singhania University, Udaipur, India, with the theme Order from Chaos. This series of posts are what my TEDx presentation was based on. There are six parts that shall be published sequentially over the next few days. This is Part Three.
On the other side, in teacher education, there is a really funny contradiction that I recently came across in teacher education. The MHRD talks about in its annual reports setting up of about 600 District Institutes of Educational Technology covering the whole of India, one for each district.
The DIETs, as they are unfortunately abbreviated, are responsible for improving the quality of basic education and increasing enrolment as well as retention. They are supposed to mentor teachers in the District and supervise educational schemes.
However the National Commission for Teacher Education on the other hand bemoans the fact that they do not have enough qualified teacher trainers to staff these DIETs!
National Curriculum Framework for Teacher Education, 2009, NCTE, India
They go so far as to state – “Teacher education programmes provide little scope for student teachers to reflect on their experiences.”
National Curriculum Framework for Teacher Education, 2009, NCTE, India
Not only are we burning our children at the altar of this education, but our teachers-to-be are going through no different a process!
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