Welcome to School of Education

The School of Education undertakes academic activities pertaining to two major areas:

• the various  aspects of the practice of education as a profession, and
• the various branches of education as an academic discipline viz. education, educational management, educational technology and adult education

The School of Education (SOE) is mandated  to organize academic programmes in education as an area of knowledge and as  a field of professional practice. The academic council has assigned four disciplines to the School, namely, Education, Distance Education,  Educational Technology and Adult Education. The School has been undertaking three types of activities: Development and Offer of Academic Programmes, Research and Documentation Activities and Extension Activities. The Academic Programmes on offer are (i) Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) in Education (Phase - I)  (ii) Postgraduate Diploma in Higher Education  (PGDHE) (iii) Bachelor Degree Programme in Education (B.Ed),  and (v) Diploma in Primary Education  (DPE)-Module-1.In addition to the maintenance of ongoing programmes, the School is engaged in developing courses for programmes already initiated and also initiating new programmes.

The School of Education prepares scholars to be engaged in educational discourses and
knowledge generation. It also provides for the professional development of teachers and educational managers at different levels of education. It also functions as a centre for documentation of teacher education materials in the form of print and non-print media and is engaged in promotion of technology-enabled learning.

The functions of the School of Education are, within the broad framework of the objectives of IGNOU, to undertake academic activities addressing education as a field of knowledge and an area of practice. 

The School comprises the following disciplines / areas of work.  

• Education
  
  Distance Education
  
  Educational Technology
  
  
• Adult Education