Development History and Main Features of Teacher Education in India

Key words: 
• India；teacher education；curriculum system；teacher training；the role of the teacher education /
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Abstract: Teacher education in India stemmed from early cultural tradition of respecting teachers and ancient tutorial system, which was later subjected to British colonial rules. After Indian independence in 1947, teachers education finally started a big development in a real sense. India has taken some reform in teachers education and experiments, which started from 1950s, and then developed under the condition that there were no clear national educational idea as well as goals. And after that, India reconstructed teachers educational programs in the 1970s and made them more mature. The Indian government also set up a diversity of teachers educational institutions so that the number of the teachers got a largescale expansion. After the independence of India, after the 66yearlong development, it has now formed a multilevel, multitype of primary and secondary school teachers educational system.