22Dec 2018

TEACHER EDUCATION IN SAARC COUNTRIES: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS.

  • M. Phil research scholar, ramakrishna mission sikshanamandira, belur math, howrah.
  • Principal, ramakrishna mission sikshanamandira, belur math, howrah.
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Teacher education programme is employed to meet the need of the profession, to face the professional challenges, to enable and empower the teacher for the development of teacher proficiency and competence. The comparative study on contemporary Teacher Education in SAARC countries is an attempt to promote and develop a broad understanding about the objectives. This investigation was restricted to the study of the present objectives of some selected SAARC countries that is India, Bangladesh Sri Lanka & Pakistan. The present study is a qualitative one and belongs to the broad area of ?Comparative Education?. The objectives of secondary teacher education programmes have been set up by India and Sri Lanka in a modern way to cope up with respective issues and to keep pace with recent global trends of secondary teacher education. Teacher education institutions have been restructured and the curriculum and methodologies have been reshaped by Pakistan. Bangladesh has adopted modern technologies and techniques within their capacity and thus promoted teacher education in their training colleges.


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[Niranjan manna and Swami tattwasarananda. (2018); TEACHER EDUCATION IN SAARC COUNTRIES: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 6 (Dec). 1420-1424] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com


niranjan manna
M. Phil. Research Scholar, Ramakrishna Mission Sikshanamandira, Belur Math, Howrah

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/8283      
DOI URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/8283