PEET MEMORIAL TRAINING COLLEGE

Rev. Joseph Peet is one of the pioneering missionaries in India who kindled the spirit of modern learning and combined geological sensitivity and environmental serenity to the maximum. Rev Joseph Peet started schools at Alappuzha , Mavelikara, Mallappally, Ernakulam, Karunagapally, Omalloor, Tiruvalla and Adoor. for the slaves. At the time caste schools were prevalent which aimed at the education of the elities. Rev. Peet started schools for educating the slaves.

Rev Joseph Peet started mass education through extempore sermons and public speeches in Kerala with Mavelikara as his head quarters. Rev. Joseph Peet traveled the length and breadth of kerala and even Tamizhakam for acquiring information regarding the soil, water purity, crops, and so on. He familiarised new irrigational methods and cropping even below sea level. He gathered many chieftains from various places and convened a meeting for farmers, which became the first fellowship of farmers for effective farming and high yielding harvest. He familiarized the method of flood prevention. In 1849, He published the text on “Geography of Kerala” which ignited in us the spark of exploration in the field of disseminating new knowledge for geography learning

The text “ Geogrpahy of Kerala” is regarded as the first text which spoke about the terrains and territories of Kerala. It gave a detailed illustration about rivers, flora and fauna and so on.

Peet Memorial Training College was established in the year 1960 as the centre for teacher education Prof. K.M. Ninan , the first social Science teacher in the college co-authored a Text of geography along with his brother Shri. K.M. Joseph.

In 1967 Pedagogic Assistance centre was established which accorded high reputation at the National level. The centre was instrumented in publishing various texts on Objective Based Teaching. It took the initiative in transforming the history curriculum into a full fledged Social science curriculum by including pedantic inputs from geography, geology, sociology, anthropology, economics, civics and so in.