District Institutes of Education and Training - Teacher Education

District Institutes of Education and Training: A Comparative Study in Three Indian States
The organisation of the DIET into branches, which has tended to lead to
compartmentalisation within the institute, may be counterproductive. The
reorganisation of DIETs into subject areas may be an alternative, providing that
emphasis is put on the need for subject specialists to have knowledge, skills and
understandings in the areas that formerly comprised branches, i.e. curriculum,
planning and management, and so on; and increase the emphasis, required to make
the competency approach work, on learning outcomes and evaluation.
This chapter has also drawn attention to the importance of institutional agency,
ownership and responsibility in relation to DIET instrumentality in bringing
about educational change, and identified the lack of professional development
opportunities as an important omission in trying to build these essential aspects of
a successfully functioning decentralised teacher education institute.
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