Education is not just about going to formal institution and learning “3Rs” Reading, ’Riting (Writing) and ’Rithmetic ( Arithmetic) but it is beyond that. It has the capacity to change the society and the world as a whole. With this belief, the Department of Education, Gour Mahavidyalaya  laid its foundation in the year 1985 with the capacity of 28 students. The Department initially took immense care in catering its service to the weaker section within the District as well as the students from other Districts. At the initial level in 1985 the subject Education was offered as a General course and later during 1995 the course broadened its program to Honours course. At present the Department has one Assistant Professor and three Guest Lecturer.

Education as a subject is very much related to human being as a whole from cradle to the grave. It allows and helps to understand how human being develop and learn over their lifetime. Thus this subjects has a range of subject disciplines such as Philosophy, Psychology, sociology, Pedagogy, Educational commissions, Educational Measurement And Technology, Guidance And Counselling, Great Educators etc. Therefore after the 3 years course of this subject, the student would gain a broad and practical understanding of all the philosophical, societal, cultural, historical, knowledge of Educational processes, Educational system and Approaches and above all the psychology of human behaviour.        

For the partial fulfilment of the three years undergraduate course the students in their third year are made to involve in various activities like preparation and execution of lesson plan, surveying the locality in regard to sanitation and nutrition, adult literacy campaign, visiting kindergarten school and an excursion program related with the subject. Some of the practices of the Department are as follows:-

1.      Interactive class through PPT and audio visual medium.

2.      Special lecture by renowned teachers of other Colleges and Universities.

3.      Special lecture by faculties of different Department of the college itself.

4.      Practical experience and understanding of the subject through school visit, field visit and educational tour.

5.      Department also organise student classroom seminar, Annual Departmental Exhibition, project work, and conduct monthly class test.

6.      Department also provide books to the student from Departmental Library, Xerox and Printing facilities.

7.      Department also use social media like whatsapp for student teacher communication.