Few Erudite Positions On Teacher & Teacher Training In Colonial Bengal

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 the Indian perspective. Mainly an attempt has been taken to discuss the opinion of great persons of India regarding teacher education. Few of them later came to be acknowledged afterward 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 opinion, thoughts of a great person, and their role in that historical context.