ABSTRACT

Teacher education in India has been viewed as one of the most demanding professional courses by the young graduates. In West Bengal, there are government, government-aided and private self-financed institutions offering these courses. Due to lack of optimum seats in government colleges mediocre students coming from different socio-economic strataopt for private Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) colleges paying hefty fees. Besides, government and government aided institutions are unable to keep pace with the increasing demands of B.Ed. degree so many are compelled to shift to private colleges. Private institutions are more flexible regarding curriculum execution, student attendance which are other important considerations. Due to scarcity of government jobs, the teacher educators also are going for vacant teaching positions with lesser renumeration in private colleges. To assess this sharp inclination towards privatization in B.Ed. programme, as a prototype North 24 Parganas district has been chosen.This paper based on both primary and secondary data including comprehensive literature review attemptsto study the growth pattern of teacher education institutions under the light of privatization and to bring out the comparative views of students and teacher educatorsfrom rural and urban belts representing different institution typesregarding this growing trend of privatization by using test of significance and analysis of variance (ANOVA). The result shows that all the stakeholders are showing interest in privatization but in varying degrees based on their gender, type of institutions and location. Keywords: teacher education, professional course, self-financed, privatization, ANOVA
Publication date: 15/01/2022

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https://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2022/11.1.1063