Abstract:
The education system in India, as highlighted by various committees through evidence-based
reports, requires significant transformation, increased awareness, and the implementation of
new reforms in both general education and teacher education. With the evolving needs of
learners, there is a corresponding demand for substantial changes in teachers’ roles,
competencies, and professional practices. This will help in achieving the aims and objectives
of a New India. Treating the roots of the plant will help to grow the plant fast, healthy and
wide along with treating the leaves. This is possible only when education moves out of the
clutches of and exclusive focus on roots of education means teacher education.
Description:
The new National Educational Policy 2020, drawing the new changes in the education and
teacher education after a long time in history of education. Previously, too much
recommendations and suggestions were initiated by various committees and commissions
about the need for changes in the teacher education. The new policy is trying to do these
changes and initiating new era in the field of education. The present study stamps to study
how much teacher educators of western region are aware about these reforms recommended
and suggested in the NEP 2020, their attitude toward these reforms. This study also focuses
on the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Challenges teacher educators feel in the
reforms and in the way of implementation of NEP 2020. This study is carried out in the
western region (states Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa) of the
country.
