Critical Appraisal of NCFTE (2009)

Abstract

Role of a teacher is not limited to goal of education, curriculum, material and methods but to meet the ever changing demands and expectations of the changing society. Right to education (2009) increases the demand of qualified elementary teachers and at the same time the demand for quality secondary education. This leads to show concern with the professional education of secondary teachers and an effective curriculum is needed for professional development. The process of developing curriculum framework was taken up by NCTE (1978) where it recommends the reconstruction of teacher education programmes and their content in view of the implementation of National Education Policy (1986). This was reviewed by the NCERT (1988) and was followed by UGC (1990) curriculum development centre for the development of model curriculum. After becoming a statutory body in 1995, NCTE brought out curriculum framework for Quality Teacher Education in 1998. In 2000 NCERT brought out another framework, Teacher Education for Future, to support NCF.A Discussion Paper on Curriculum Framework was jointly prepared by NCTE and NCERT in 2006. The initial draft of the NCFTE 2009 was the result of cooperative efforts of Expert Committee, teacher educators, teachers, pupil teachers, representative of NGO's faculty of NCERT's SCERT's DIET's IASE's CTE's, University and State department of education at the meet held at Udaipur and Hyderabad The objective of this article is to examine the trustworthiness, value and relevance of NCFTE in context of curriculum and other essentials for teacher educators.