Ever since the inception of the Junior College of Education (D.Ed.) in the campus in 1962, it has been the effort of the Managing Council to have a Senior College of Education (B.Ed.) -ADHYAPAK MAHAVIDYALAYA as the Vidyavihar lays great stress on sound methods of teaching at all levels.
This objective is now being fulfilled by the sanction received from
Govt. of Maharashtra permitting Vidyavihar to set up a
B. Ed. College from the academic year 1990-91. The college came into existence on 29th August 1990
and is affiliated to the University of Mumbai. This college is a recognized Gujarati
Minority Institution.
The college is geared specially to provide high quality education adopting the latest techniques and methodology for curriculum transaction and is poised to develop into an institute of higher learning and interdisciplinary research. The institution also aspires to kindle in the students the desire for lifelong learning and for reaching the unreached.
Vision
- K. J. Somaiya Comprehensive college of Education, Training and Research aspires to be a leading institution in the country offering quality teacher education to enlighten, emancipate and empower the student-teacher fraternity and to foster life long learning.
K. J. Somaiya Comprehensive College of Education, Training and Research will undertake
- to develop an understanding of the principles of pedagogy and its application to curriculum transaction and evaluation.
- to develop in students the skills and competencies necessary to play the multifaceted role of the teacher in the new millennium.
- to provide opportunities to the faculty and the students to undertake action research projects contributing to new insights into the teaching learning process.
- to enable the students to live in harmony with oneself and with others in the profession, community and society at large.
- to instill the spirit of fellowship among students, to prepare them to be global citizens through cooperation and peaceful coexistence.
- to inspire students for life long learning and for reaching the unreached.
