A suggestive curriculum for the master of education (M.Ed.) programme with an expanded employability quotient

Abstract

Master of Education (M.Ed.) is a programme, which has selected aspirants in India due to its employability limitations. In reality, the M.Ed. degree offers a wide range of scope to its holders; encompassing not only the vast world of education from the lowest levels of schools to the highest cadre of policy making, but also the usually alien realm for an academician i.e. the corporate sector. The M.Ed. one-year programme followed in most of the Teacher Education Institutions in India hardly had the space, in terms of time, to infuse the voluminous requirements of knowledge and skills in its aspirants. With the advent of the mandatory M.Ed. two-year programme with the latest NCTE-2014 Regulations, these enormous requirements could be refurbished. This paper thus, proposes a Curriculum for the M.Ed. two-year programme, with an aim to strengthen two broad employment areas, Teacher-Education and Management-Education. This Curriculum is thus, segregated into two parts, with respect to its specialization courses, practicum and internships. It provides a detailed semester-wise plan regarding the type of courses, practical works, internship sites etc. with credits and working hours tabulated. This two-fold Curriculum, thus suggests, ways to create teacher educators, eligible to teach the bachelor courses in the disciplines of education, science, commerce, arts; and administrators/managers/policymakers, eligible to be employed in educational and corporate fields. It also provides opportunities to develop one of the most valuable human resource – researchers.