APPENDIX H : COPY OF LETTER NO. F. 13-4/80-SCH-3 DATED 14TH SEPTEMBER, 1981 REGARDING REVIEW OF TEACHER'S TRAINING PROGRAMMES
No.F.13-4/80. 3
Government of India
Ministry of Education & Culture
(Department of Education)
New Delhi, the 14th September, 1981.
To
The Director,
N.C.E.R.T.
New Delhi.
SUBJECT: Review of Teachers' Training Programmes and Inculcation of
Ethical and Social Values in Education.
Sir,
In partial modification of this Ministry's letter No.F. 13-4/80-
Sch. 3 dated the 23rd May, 1981 on the above subject, I am directed to
state that the terms of reference of the informal Working Group to
review Teachers' Training Programmes given in para 2 of our letter
under reference may be substituted by the following:-
(i) To suggest the necessary changes to the present
content and scope of valueorientation in education with
special reference to the need to ensure development and
promotion among students and teachers not only of the
highest values of physical, emotional, mental, aesthet-
ic, moral and spiritual culture but also of those moral
values which are uniquely Indian and which would promote
secularism, pride in heritage and composite culture;
(ii) To suggest a programme of the study of the nation-
al freedom struggle;
(iii) To suggest the curriculum content for teacher
trainees to achieve the desired value-orientation;
(iv) To suggest special techniques of pedagogy for
training in value-orientation,
(v) To suggest strategies for reorienting serving
teachers through inservice programmes;
(vi) To suggest ways of promoting participation of
voluntary organisations in organising training courses
for teachers;
(vii) To assess dimensions of effort required as also to
indicate the extent of governmental inputs;
(viii) To make suggestions which would be relevant
to the determination of the new roles of teachers as
counsellors and guides instead of as mere lecturers; and
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(ix) to determine the important tasks that teachers
will need to undertake towards preparing the new educa-
tional materials keeping in view the challenges of our
times.
2. The Education Secretary also desires that the Committee may
be requested to complete its work as quickly as possible since the
implementation details will have to be worked out which will also take
some amount of time.
Yours faithfully,
(Girdhari Lal)
Director (Schools)
Copy forwarded to:-
(i) Shri Kireet Joshi, Educational Adviser, Ministry
of Education & Culture, New Delhi.
(ii) joint Secretary (Schools), Ministry of Education &
Culture, New Delhi.
(iii) Prof. V.S. Jha, 868, Wright Town, Jha Marg,
Jabalpur-482002.
(iv) Prof Jal Jahangir Nanavatty, II, Napier Road,
Pune-400110.
(v) Dr. R.C. Das, Head of Department of Teachers'
Education, NCERT, New Delhi.
(vi) School-5 Section, Ministry of Education & Culture,
New Delhi, for further action.
(vii) School-4 Section, Ministry of Education & Culture,
New Delhi.
(Girdhari Lal)
Director (Schools)
GMGIPND-L-2Ed-13-583-600.