REFORMING TEACHER EDUCATION WITH MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH ADHERING TO NEP 2020

Education is an important aspect that plays a huge role in the modern, industrialized world. This is the age of
science and technology. It is the age of explosion of knowledge, day by day, even at every moment, the new
knowledge, researches have been explored. We live in the information era, where students are bombarded with
information from all concerns, so the need of the hours, to engage students in the learning stream by establishing
connections and linkages between various disciplines with the help of available knowledge. It is known as the
multidisciplinary approach in education.
NEP 2020 envision one large multidisciplinary Higher Education Institution (HET) in or near every district,
2030 and encourages multi-disciplinary approach from the primary education, flexibility to choose subjects from
science and humanities to students. These types of recommendations encourages an inclusive holistic, fruitful,
multidisciplinary education system. The present paper throws light on the multidisciplinary approach which is
introduced in teacher education by NEP2020. There are many fundamental changes brought in education and
teacher education too. One of the changes is elimination of separate existence of B.Ed. and its integration in
multidisciplinary colleges. The process of confluence will create some challenges which should be catered with
more academic manners. Some of the challenges are also discussed in the present paper.