RE-ENVISIONING TEACHER EDUCATION FOR POST-PANDEMIC FUTURE OF INDIA

During the past two years, schools, colleges and universities, shut down due to the Covid-19 pandemic, causing disruptions in pre-service teacher education in many parts of the world. The training dimension that was hardest hit was the pre-service practicum. Due to the locked down, prospective teachers were deprived of the ‘normal’ field experience and actual classroom teaching practices in authentic school settings. Various practicum modalities however unfolded all over the globe and these are documented in many papers published during 2020 and early 2021. (Donitsa-Schmidt & Ramot, 2020), (Ellis et al 27],( Zhang, W., Wang, Y., Yang, L., & Wang, C. 2020),( Ferdig, R. E., Baumgartner, E., Hartshorne, R., Kaplan-Rakowski, R., & Mouza, C. 2020),( Ersin, P. I, & Atay, D. 2021) they do present detailed exposition about the impact of COVID-19 on the pre-service teacher education.These studies help us to explore, how pedagogies got adapted when students, learners and teacher educators moved to new online spaces. These studies also help us to understand, how established student teaching practices changed quickly, with students showing an immense disposition for change.