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Teacher Education

Notes the State Government, including physical and financial estimates of the proposals.
• By the provisions of NPE on teacher education, a Centrally sponsored Scheme of Restructuring
and Reorganization of Teacher Education was approved in October 1987. One of the five
components of the Scheme was establishment of DIETs.
• Till October 1989, Central assistance had been sanctioned under the Scheme for setting up a
total of 216 DIETs in the country.
• The present document purports to consolidate, amplify and revise the existing guidelines in
regard to DIETs.
• "To provide academic and resource support at the grass-roots level for the success of the
various strategies and programmes being undertaken in the areas of elementary and adult
education.

10.9 Keywords

• Envisage : To imagine what will happen in the future.
• Perception : The way you notice things especially with the senses.
• Disparity : A difference, especially one connected with unfair treatment.
• Accountable : Responsible for your decisions or actions and expected to explain then when
you are asked.

10.10 Review Questions

1. Write a note on history and establishment of SCERT.
2. Give some functions of SCERT.
3. What is DIET? Explain its history, structure, features of DIET.
4. What is the function of DIET?
Answers: Self Assessment

1. (i) SCERTs (ii) 25 (iii) nodal (iv) Karnataka
(v) pay structure
2. (i) True (ii) True (iii) False (iv) False

10.11 Further Readings

1. Inclusive Education--Study And Teaching : Suzanne E. Wade. Pam Schuctz, Lawrence
Erlbaum Associates.
2. Teacher Education: Arthur M.Cohen, Florene B. Brawere; Pam Schuctz, Lawrence
Erlbaum Associates.
3. Issues and Problems in Teacher Education: Bernadette Robinson.

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