Infusion Of Techno Pedagogy In Elementary Teacher Education Curriculum: Perspectives And Challenges

Abstract

Acquiring techno-pedagogical proficiencies will make teaching and learning a pleasurable exercise as it would minimize the pressure on the teachers and enable the students to delve deeper into domain of knowledge. Teacher education curriculum is responsible for imparting such abilities to modern teachers. This paper is an effort to review newly revised and restructured elementary teacher education curriculum of Kerala for contents to improve techno pedagogical skills of student teachers. And the paper will try to perform analysis on the effectiveness of the current contents enabling techno pedagogical skills, in the teacher education curriculum of Kerala and also, it will try to identify the challenges in transaction of technological contents in current syllabus. Despite the existing contents for enabling techno pedagogical skills, there are still many areas need improvement, the paper will also provide suggestions for further development in those sections.