This study aims to explore the location of teacher education and the study of education in the university context of India. The main research questions are as follows: How do universities conceptualize the study of education and teacher education in the university? How do policy frameworks and regulatory interventions shape/interact with the knowledge, practice and study of education and teacher education in the university? The nature of this study is qualitative. Semistructured interviews were done with the twenty faculty members from different universities who have written or are currently teaching education studies/ teacher education at the university. Along with the interviews, document analysis of national education policy documents, the vision/ mission statements of the selected university departments and their concept note were made. Data was analyzed using the Reflective Thematic Analysis method. The findings highlighted that the research, teaching, course conceptualizations, and recruitment in the university are shaped by the policy-politics of teacher education and higher education norms. This study is significant in mapping various tensions, such as teacher education regulations vs university autonomy, administrative workload vs professional goals, and liberal vs professional aspects of education, in locating teacher education and study of education in the university. Moreover, the findings also map the problems of the domain, such as the contested status of education as a discipline, hierarchies between scholars and practitioners of education, contradictory regulations, and the low academic status of teacher education.

Authors:
Radhika Mittal, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi, India

About the Presenter(s)
Radhika Mittal is a PhD scholar at the School of Education Studies, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi. Her research interests are teacher education, global and national education policy, discipline of education, higher education.

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