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Teacher Education

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The Professional preparedness of teachers being crucial for the qualitative
improvement of education, the Indian Education Commission has urged that this
should be treated as a key-area in educational development and adequate financial
provisions should be made for it.

Self Assessment
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(i) The Indian Education Commission is also called ...................... .
(ii) The Indian Education Commission began its tasks on ........................ .
(iii) According to Commission the duration of the professional courses to be .............. for
primary teachers who completed the secondary school course and ........................ for graduate
student.
(iv) Every training institution should have an ....................... attached to it according to
commission.
(v) The Kothari Commission has recommented that the staff in teacher training institutions
should hold, besides a B.Ed. degree, a ............ either in education or in an academic subject.
(vi) New ................... to be developed to orientate head masters teacher educators, educational
administrates to their special field of work.

15.5 Summary

• The Indian Education Commission was set up at July 14, 1964.
• The commission began its task on October 2, 1964 under the chairmanship
• Introduction of manual work, production experience, stress on moral education,
vocationalization of secondary education, education for agriculture research in agriculture
and allied science, training and quality of teachers for schools were the main features of
commission report.
• The recommendations of the commission are :
(i) Education and national development.
(ii) Education and productivity.
(iii) Social and national integration.
(iv) Education for democracy.
(v) Social moral and spiritual values.
(vi) Education and modenization.
• Commission emphasized on structure and standard of educational system; reorganization
of university stage utilization of facilities, teacher status, teacher education after independence.
• Commission gave proper attention towards equalization of education opportunities. It stress
on the need for development of common school system, adequate programms of student
service at all stages, large programms of scholars, special encouragement to the education
of girls and backwards classes.
• It suggests the essentials of curricular improvement and study of languages, under school
education curriculum.
(a) Increase productivity
(b) Social and national integration
(c) Acceleration the process of modernization.

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