Readiness Of Pupil-Teachers Towards Creating Progressive Environment For 6 Cs Of Education- A Parallel Mixed Method Study

Abstract

As human beings we know quite well that humans can do any impossible thing if they make a mindset. We can't force someone to do a task until he or she is ready. So, to make things work we all need to know the readiness level. This comes true when it comes to making a future teacher more skillful and advanced. Pupil- Teachers will learn teaching techniques effectively only when they are ready for it. During their internship period it is very important to impart them with the knowledge about Communication, Collaboration, Critical thinking, Creativity, Citizenship/ Culture and Character/ Compassion and with the skills by which they can effectively use these concepts inside a classroom teaching and learning. Which are known as 6Cs of Education. Therefore, the readiness level of Pupil-Teachers for creating a progressive environment for 6Cs of Education comes into highlight. Through this study researcher comprehensively assessed it using a parallel mixed- method research design. In this design both quantitative and qualitative approaches are used to obtain the data on the same topic. Researcher collected quantitative data from 130 randomly selected Pupil- Teachers of H.N.B. Garhwal University through a self- made questionnaire and for qualitative data researcher performed detailed interviews of 15 purposively selected individual by face-to-face interaction. After collecting all the data, the final work of analyzing was done by comparing results of both sets. In most of the indicators of readiness either the results of quantitative descriptions, and qualitative themes converge, or the quantitative result is elaborated by the qualitative result. All over a slightly readiness of Pupil-Teachers for creating a progressive environment for 6Cs of Education is measured.