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Teacher Education in Colonial India: An Indian Intellectual Discourse

Dr. Ajoy Ghosh
Assistant professor, Department of Education, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
E-mail: ajoyghosh86@gmail.com

Published online: 13th February, 2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.52756/rpktbc.2025.e01.013

Keywords: Development, Teacher education, Teacher training, Bengal, Normal school, Elite Views

Abstract:

Teacher education is an integral component of any educational system. It is intimately connected with society and is conditioned by the ethics, culture, and character of a nation. Teacher education in the modern period was characterized by the British in India. Different committees were instituted to look into the system of teacher education and training. In the present section, an attempt has been made to shed light on eight erudite positions on Teacher & Teacher Training in Colonial Bengal. Basically, the philosophical basis of teacher education has been discussed from Indian perspective. Mainly, an attempt has been made to discuss the opinion of a great person of India regarding teacher education. Few of them later came to be acknowledged afterwards as pioneering educators amongst whom the name of Tagore, Vivekananda, Aurobindo and Nivedita are worth mentioning.  Exploration of the documents will be the first phase of the study, which will be followed by the qualitative content analysis, and in the second phase, historical research criticism, both internal and external, will be used. It would describe why and when teacher training had been established as a system of education in India. It would identify and clarify the opinions and thoughts of a great person and their role in that historical context.

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Dr. Ajoy Ghosh (2025). Teacher Education in Colonial India: An Indian Intellectual Discourse. © International Academic Publishing House (IAPH), Dr. Rajiba lochan Mahapatra, Dr. Arpan Das and Dr. Somnath Das (eds.), Revisiting the past knowledge tradition of Bharat: A critique (Volume-1), pp. 113-132. ISBN: 978-81-978955-6-2
doi: https://doi.org/10.52756/rpktbc.2025.e01.013

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