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Unit 27: Recent Trends in Research on Teacher Education

• Now researches were classified under context, input process and output variables. During Notes
the eighties context, presage, process, product were the categories.
• The context variables include student-teacher characteristics, institutional characteristics
related studies and on classroom context. Student-teacher characteristics means student-
teachers formative experiences, academic qualifications, abilities, personality factors,
intelligence, etc.
• Problems of research are both intrinsic and extrinsic to the researcher.
• The first study reported in Teacher Education was by Banerji in 1956.
• Teaching, like other professions, has a developing knowledge base that serves to guide
practitioners. Knowledge generated by research is an important component of this
knowledge. Teacher education and staff development programme might be considered to
be a central avenue of knowledge dissemination.
• Networking should be established with central level agencies working in the area of Teacher
Education. They are Teacher Education unit in the MHRD, National Council for Teacher
Education (NCTE), National Council Educational Research and Training (NCERT), University
Grants Commission (UGC).

27.8 Keywords

• Utilization : The process of to use something, especially for a particular purpose.
• Implications : a possible effect or result of an action or a decision.
• Research : A careful study of a subject, especially in order to discover new facts or
information's about it.
• Comprehensive : Including all, or almost all, the items, details, facts, information etc.

27.9 Review Questions
1. What are the main purposes of research in Teacher Education?
2. How will research in the area of Teacher Education help in understand the educational
phenomena?
3. Discuss the trends in research on Teacher Education in India. Based on the findings of this
research, what suggestions will you make to transform the structure and process of Teacher
Education?
4. Discuss the tends in research in teaching and teachers. How can the findings of research in
this area be used for overhauling the system of Teacher Education?
5. “Research on Teacher Education should change the quality of teacher and teaching”. How
far is this achieved through current research on teachers?
6. Describe the research trends in Teacher Education in India with reference to the variable
studied and research designs and methodologies used. What improvements can you suggest
to make research on Teacher Education more rigorous and meaningful?
Answers: Self Assessment
1. (i) teacher education (ii) process
(iii) transforming (iv) action research, research methodology
2. (i) False (ii) True (iii) True (iv) False
(v) True
3. (i) (b) (ii) (a) (iii) (c)

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