DISCIPLINE SPECIFIC RESOURCE CENTERS IN SECONDARY TEACHERS’ PRE-SERVICE TRAINING PROGRAMME OF HIMACHAL PRADESH: AVAILABILITY AND UTILIZATION

This paper presents the results a survey on the availability and utilization of various disciplinary areas specific resource centres viz. Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, Mathematics, Social Sciences, English Language and Hindi Language in secondary teachers’ pre-service training programme of Himachal Pradesh in India. The information was gathered by using separate questionnaire for each of the resource centre. After careful analysis of information gathered, it was found that all the resource centers were available in most of the colleges of education. Some of the colleges have in the form of separate units and some of them have in the form of multi-purpose units. The maintenance and utilization of the resource centers was not up to the mark as it should be. Some of the teacher educators were found making good use of the resource center but not the majority, though most of them opined resource centers to be useful in the training programme. Suggestions were also made to strengthen the use of resource centers to the maximum.

 

Keywords: Disciplinary Areas, English Language Resource Centre, Secondary Teachers’ Training Programme.


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