Perception of Teachers for Quality School Culture and Climate: with special reference to Kendriya Vidyalayas and Navodaya Vidyalayas

Abstract

 School education plays a significant role in shaping the destiny of the students and the nation as a whole. School culture and climate inculcates and develops values, manners, habits, self-confidence, self-discipline, self-reliance and career mindedness in a person right from the childhood. It provides base for building future career and help to achieve the desired goals. Quality is a complex and relative term and has no physical measurable form. Different individuals perceive the concept of quality in different manners. In school education teachers are the major providers of the education services to the consumers of the system, i.e. students. So, the teachers’ views for quality school atmosphere have a great significance. In present paper efforts are made to study the quality of school education in Kendriya Vidyalayas and Navodaya Vidyalayas from the eyes of their teachers. The perception of teachers on school culture and climate is visualised along with their expectations. The paper also suggests measures and prioritises concerns for improvement in quality of education at school level to make it more vibrant and effective in accomplishing the task of providing quality education to all children.