National Education Policy-2020 and Framework for Teacher Education

Abstract

Education is the key for development of any society which depends on the quality of teachers. Teacher’s knowledge, teacher’s dedication, teacher’s quality, teacher’s professional commitment and his inner motivation are the factors responsible teaching learning process. Production of competent teachers is a big challenge of the contemporary world. With increasing knowledge, today, teacher’s job has been more challenging in pedagogical and psychological theories, philosophical and sociological perspective, a proper Teacher education programmes need to be formulated. Necessary improvement in teacher education is a challenge for every nation to provide effective and competent teachers. In India, during the chase of this reformation various policy documents in the form of Kothari commission report (1964-66), Acharya Rammurti Samiti Report (1990), NCF (2005), National knowledge commission report, NCTE regulations 2009, NCTEF (2010) etc., the curriculum and regulations for Teacher education have experienced a paradigm shift. However, yet there are some issues and problems which need to be addressed. This purpose of the present paper is an attempt to highlight some of the policy issues for teacher education in light of NEP2020.