Perception Of Student Teachers About Teacher Education Programme In Odisha As Envisaged In NEP-2020

Abstract

The future of a nation is shaped in its classrooms and teacher is the architect who shapes the destiny. Education is key for achieving full human potential, developing an equitable, society and promoting national development. Teacher is considered as the heart of education system, as the entire system revolves around the teacher. Recently, the National Education Policy (NEP)-2020 has also come up with new pedagogical and curricular restructuring for the school education. Towards this, the policy document strongly recommends to develop a new model of 4-year B.Ed. programme as essential for becoming a teacher in future and has identified several contemporary issues related to Teacher Education which must be addressed through the future model. In this regard, the researcher aims to find out and compare the perception of student teachers about teacher education programme of Odisha as envisaged in NEP-2020.the descriptive survey method is employed for the present study. The investigator has chosen 210 student teachers as sample for his study out of which 105 are from arts background and another 105 are from science background using simple random sampling method. Self-developed questionnaire (perception scale) for student teachers was used as tool for data collection. The investigator used percentage analysis, mean, SD and t-test for data analysis. He concluded that there is no significant difference between perception of arts and science student teachers towards teacher education programme as envisaged in NEP-2020. In totto, it was revealed that  both the student teachers from arts and science background are in favour of ITEP programme as envisaged in NEP-2020.