ABOUT THE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION (SoE)

The School of Education (SoE) is a new feather on the cap of NSOU. It was established in the year 2013 with a view to instil quality in the discipline of Education & Teacher Education. In the meantime, NSOU had provided quality teacher education to a large number of In-service Teachers (about 30,000) to fulfil the mandate of RTE- Act 2009 within 2015 in a project mode with the approval of NCTE

About CDSER (Centre for Disability Studies & Educational Research)

In compliance with the RCI and UGC circulars, a Centre in the name of CDSER has been established under the aegis of SoE, NSOU. The vision of the Centre is to develop human resources in the field of Disability and Education as well. Keeping this in view, the present 6-month certificate course on “Capacity Building & Professional Development on Inclusive Education” is offered under this newly formed CDSER to cater to the emerging needs of Inclusive Education. This is in line with the specific mission of the centre which strengthens the potentialities of teachers and professionals to build competence in the changing society and support thereby.

Success Story:

SoE NSOU takes the credit to successfully provide quality teacher education to a large number of In-service Teachers (29,515 Upper Primary Teachers) to fulfil the mandate of RTE- Act 2009 within 2015 in a project mode with the approval of NCTE. This course on a Project mode (as per GoWB directive) was offered in 183 Study Centres across West Bengal.

Other Initiatives:

SoE, NSOU has also taken other initiatives and undertaken collaborative assignments with other reputed organization like Backward class Welfare Dept. GoWB, TESS-India, Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI), Gyan Vani and many more. Recently the SoE, has conducted 15 training & Sensitization of key Functionaries of Central and State Govt, Local Bodies and other Services Providers on Disability issue. More than 500 College and Universities Teachers have been sensitized in the respective districts of West Bengal funded by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (MoSJE), RCI, Govt of India. RCI funded 5-day Refresher Programme (CRE equivalence) has been also conducted for aspiring special educators. Apart from this, SoE organizes various National seminars, conferences and workshops to disseminate new information and ideas in the realm of Education and Special Education. In addition to this, faculties from SoE were invited to participate in a National workshop on “Making pre-service teacher education curriculum inclusive” organised by NCERT, New Delhi held at Mysore (preparation of the draft curriculum) and New Delhi (final draft of the curriculum was developed and adapted) respectively. Recently, SoE has successfully completed a joint project with CoL-CEMCA, New Delhi on “Development of Curriculum and SLM on Capacity Building and Professional Development of Teachers and Teacher Educators for successful implementation of Inclusiveness”. This has been widely used in the National level MOOC platform and also shared by other state Universities. A 3-month self-financed certificate programme on “Capacity building and professional development on Inclusive Education” has been recently conducted successfully by the SoE. This course has been now upgraded to 6-month certificate course offered by the newly formed Centre, CDSER under the aegis of SoE, NSOU.