Growth and Status of Secondary Teacher Education Programme in Chhattisgarh: A Study

Abstract

 This study was conducted to find out the growth of secondary teacher education programme (B.Ed.) in Chhattisgarh since 2004 and the status in terms of number and types of institutions and strength of students in these institutions. In addition to these, this study also put an effort to find out the extent to which these institutions have fulfilled norms and standards of NCTE. Perception of pupil teachers and teacher educators towards the ongoing problems and solutions of these problems is another part of discussion. To strengthen the study data were obtained from both primary as well as secondary sources. Three hundred pupil teachers and 70 teacher educators across ten secondary teacher education institutions were the sample of the study. It was found that in Chhattisgarh the number of secondary teacher education institutions and the strength of students have been continuously increased from 2004-05 to 2009-10. So far the growth in types of institutions is concerned, private institutions showed steady growth in comparison to government and aided institutions. Hardly any of the private institutions completely fulfilled the recent norms and standards of NCTE in all aspects. The results of the study also revealed that pupil teachers and teacher educators were not happy with the prevailing situations. Further, many suggestions were made by them to improve the standard of the secondary teacher education programme in Chhattisgarh.