PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS’ OPINION TOWARDS PURSUANCE OF B.ED. COURSE: AN ANALYSIS OF QUALITY IN TEACHING

Abstract

Every country develops its system of education to express and promote its unique socio-cultural identity and also to meet the challenges of time. According to University education commission (1948-1949) “People in this country have been slow to recognize that Education is a profession for which intensive preparation is necessary as it is in any other profession”. The teachers learn this art through pre-service teacher education programme. The present paper discusses the opinion of prospective teachers towards pursuing B.Ed. course in respect to their academic discipline, gender and habitat. In order to explore the objective of this study, descriptive survey method (a case study) was used. 200 prospective teachers were taken as sample. The main findings of the investigation are: More than half of sample of female prospective teacher willingly take admission and have positive opinions (teaching is a respectable and good profession) regarding this course. More than eighty percent of female rural humanities and social science group prospective teachers pursue B.Ed. Course due to belief that teaching profession gets respect in the society. Majority of the male prospective teachers accept that they pursue B.Ed. course due to job security followed by parent’s compulsion or choice. It was also observed that few percentages of prospective teachers pursue B.Ed. course because they think that it is a best way to utilize their spare time.