Report of The First National Seminar on The Education of Primary Teachers in India, Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi, (3rd to 10th October, 1960)

Abstract

From Foreword: The programme of improving the training of Primary teachers has been given a high priority in the third Five-Year Plan. As a measure of preparation for the same, the Ministry of Education undertook a survey of training institutions for Primary teachers in all States and Union Territories. The results of this study have been given in Appendices I and II of this Report. Appendix I surveys the existing position with regard to recruitment, service conditions and training of Primary teachers and Appendix II makes a comparative study of thirty different syllabi for Primary teacher training schools which are in vogue in the country at present. Both these studies were discussed by the First National Seminar on the Education of Primary Teachers in India which was held in New Delhi from October 3 to 10, 1960. All the States and Union Territories participated in the Seminar which made a very useful contribution to the study of the problem. This Report of the Seminar, therefore, is the basic document in the light of which further studies and important programmes of teacher training would be undertaken in the third Five-Year Plan.