ELEMENTARY LEVEL TEACHER EDUCATION IN ODISHA AFTER 1986 major INTERVENTIONS AND CONSEQUENTIAL CHANGES

Abstract

The present study entitled ELEMENTARY LEVEL TEACHER EDUCATION newlineIN ODISHA AFTER 1986: MAJOR INTERVENTIONS AND CONSEQUENTIAL newlineCHANGES was undertaken with the following objectives such as (i) to reflect on the newlineprogress of teacher education in Odisha at elementary level in the perspective of National newlinepolicy on Education 1986,modified in 1992 and NCFTE 2009(ii)to examine the changes in newlineteacher education with regard to the major interventions like ;(a)Management of Teacher newlineEducation, (b)Curriculum of Pre-service Programme, (c)Teaching Learning Process, newline(d)Organization of In-service Programmes and (e)Performance of Student Teachersand#8223; in newlineDIETs and ETEIs (iii)to study and to compare the perception of teacher educators of DIET newlineand ETEI, student teachers of DIET and ETEI and teachers across different levels of teaching newlineexperience about the major interventions made in teacher education consequent upon the newlineimplementation of NPE1986, modified in 1992(iv)to identify the problems and issues in newlineteacher education with respect to the implementation of major interventions. newlineConvergent parallel design was followed to conduct the study on 45 teacher educators newlineof 3 DIETs and 3 ETEIs, 120 student teachers of DIET and ETEI and 90 elementary level newlineteachers with three levels of teaching experience spreading over three revenue zones of newlineOdisha. newlineThe main findings of the study are:- newlineWith regard to the changes made in teacher education inst newline