KOTHARI COMMISSION

1. BY: RITIMA MANHAS

2. KOTHARI COMISSION
 THE COMISSION WAS SET UP IN 1966, UNDER
CHAIRMANSHIP OF DR. DS KOTHARI.
THE COMMISSION LAID LOT OF STRESS ON
TESCHER EDUCATION AND REMARKED THAT A
SOUND PROGRAM OF THE PROFESSIONAL
EDUCATION OF TEACHERS IS ESSENTIAL FOR
THE QUALITATIVE IMPROVEMENT OF
EDUCATION.

3. IN ABSENCE OF QUALITY THE TEACHER
EDUCATION BECOMES A FINANCIAL WASTE AND
SOURCES OF OVERALL DETERIORATION OF
OVERALL STANDARDS OF THE EDUCATION.
THE COMMISSION RECOMMENDED THE
REORIENTATION OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE
TRAINEES

4. RECOMENDATIONS
KEY REA OF EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT :
THE PROFESSIONAL PREPRATION OF THE TEACHER
IS CRUTIAL FOR THE QUALITATIVE
IMPROVEMENT OF THE EDUCATION .IT SHOULD
BE TREATED AS THE KEY AREA IN THE
EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT . IN THIS THE
ADEQUATE FINANCIAL PROVISIONS SHOULD BE
MADE AT THE STAE ND NATIONALL LEVLEL.

5. BRINGING THE TEACHER
EDUCATON INTO MAIN STREAM:
• IN ORDER TO MAKE THE PROFESSIONAL
PREPRATION OF THE TEACHERS , TEACHER
EDUCATION MUST BE BROUGHT INTO THE MAIN
STREAM OF THE ACADEMICS LIFE THE
UNIVERSITIES .
• ALONG WITH THE UIVERSITIES THE SCHOOL
SHOULD ALSO BROUGHT INTO THE MAIN
STREAM FOR EDUCTIONAL DEVELOPMENT.

6. INTEGRATED COURSES
• THERE MUST BE THE INTEGRATION OF THE
GENRAL AND PROFESSIONAL COURSES OF THE
EDUCATION IN THE UNIVERSITIES.
THIS WILL HELP IN BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF
PROFESSIONAL ETHICS AND DUTIES .

7. PROFESSIONAL STUDIES
 SPECILISATION IN THE PROFESSIONAL
EDUCATION NEED TO BE GIVEN SPECIAL
IMPORATNCE.
 THE SPECIALISATIONS NEED TO BASED ON THE
INDIAN CONDITIONS WITH THW EDUCATIONAL
RESEARCH.

8. IMPROVED METHODS OF THE
TEACHING
 ADOPTING IMPROVED METHODS OF TEACHING
HAS GIVEN LOTS OF IMPORTANCE IN KOTHARI
COMISSION .
 THE METHODS THAT HAVE THE GREAT SCOPE
FOR THE SELF STUDY AND DISCUSSION SHOULD
BE INCLUDED OR GIVEN PREFERENCE.

9. IMPROVED METHODS OF THE
EVALUTION
EVATUTION SHOULD INCLUDE CONTINIOUS
INTERNAL ASSESMENT OF THE THEORY AND THE
PRACTICE SESSION WORK AND THE PRACTICE OF
TEACHING.

10. INTRODUCTION OF SPECIAL
COURSES
 IT HAS BEEN RECOMMENDED THAT SPECIAL
COURSES NEED TO BE INTRODUCED IN THE
TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAMES.

11. REVISION OF THE CURRICULUM
 REVSION OF THE CURRICULUM AT ALL THE
LEVELS OF THE TEACHER EDUCATION IN THE
LIGHT OF PREPARING TECHERS FOR THEIR
VARIED RESPONSIBILITIES IN EVOLVING THE
SYSTEM OF THE EDUCATION.

12. CONTENT COURSES
ORGANISATION OF WELL PLANED SUBJECT
MATTER OF THE COURSES IN COLABORATION
WITH UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENTS.
IT SHOULD BE ULTIMTELY DONE TO INSIGHT INTO
BASIC SKILLS , CONCEPTS , OBJECTIVES AND
IMPLICATIONS OF SUBJECT TO BE TEACHED.