Allama Iqbal Open University

Name: Uzma Siddique

Class: B.ED(1.5Years)
Roll No: CA634506
Semester: Spring,2021
Course Code: 8612
ASSIGNMENT NO (2)
 Q. 1 Write a detailed note on professional identity of
teacher.
1. TEACHER’S PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY
1.1 Meaning of Professional Identity
a) Gecas (1982) defined identities as the various meanings that are
attached to a person by themselves and others.
b) Professional identity is defined as one’s professional self-concept
based on attributes, beliefs, values, motives, and experiences (Ibarra,
1999: as cited in Slay & Smith, 2011).
c) A professional identity is an important cognitive mechanism that
affects workers’ attitudes, affect and behaviour in work settings and
professional life (Caza & Creary, 2016).
d) Professional identities can also be seen as a social identity of a person
within the group of the professionals who share a common approach to
a particular type of work (Van Maanen and Barley, 1984: as cited in
Caza &Creary, 2016).
1.2 Importance of Professional Identity
a) A professional identity affects individual behavior and psychological
well-being in the workplace.
b) Individuals’ professional identities determined their moral decisionmaking i.e.,
decisions related to dos and don'ts, good and bad.
c) Professional identification contributes to have positive performance
outcomes such as career success.
d) Professional identity plays an important role in shaping both
psychological processes in the workplace.
e) A positive self-concept about professional identity can protect a person
from depression and anxiety.
1.3 Development of Professional Identity
Professional identity development can be used to make sense of experiences,
practice and work (Nyström, 2009). Professional identity development shapes and
is shaped by work-integrated learning experiences. Campbell and Zegwaard
(2011) affirmed that universities/teacher education institutions play a key role in
assisting students to navigate through workplace experiences.
Luehmann (2007) described five necessary processes in the development of a
professional identity as a reformed educator, including (1) reconciling prior
beliefs with teaching, (2) locating identity within a community of practice (3)
managing emotional aspects of identity formation (4) integrating experiences and
theory of teaching profession (5) developing a sense of self-confidence.
Joanna Gilmore, Melisa Hurst and Michelle Maher (2009) described the work of
Fuller and Bown (Fuller, 1969; Fuller & Bown, 1975) about teacher identity
development. This view proposes that teachers undergo a series of four
developmental stages characterized by unique concerns.
a) In the first stage, Fantasy, which occurs prior to actual teaching, prospective
teachers romanticize about the experience ahead. At this stage, the
preservice teacher can better identify with the students' perspective than the
teachers. Thus, students in this stage are often overly critical of their own
teachers, or of teachers who they observe during early experiences in
classroom/school.
b) The Survival stage begins after entering the classroom and encountering a
crisis usually related to classroom management or mastery of content.
During this stage, the teacher struggles to achieve a sense of worth and
identity. This struggle usually translates into concerns about class control,
being liked by students and/or evaluation from other educators and
administrators.
c) The third stage, Mastery, occurs as teachers begin to develop mastery over
their content and pedagogical knowledge adaptable to different situations.
The teacher, in this stage, is able to engage in more systematic reflection
about their instructional practices. At this stage, teacher focuses on the
teacher's own performance, not on indicators of student learning.
d) In the Impact stage, the teacher is better able to focus on individual students
and their needs. Instead of being concerned about the evaluation of others,
he or she is mostly concerned with self-evaluation.
1.4 Relationship Between Professionalism and Professional Identity
Professionalism involves decision making and judgment-based practice.
Professionalism comprises more than rules; it is a fluid concept which is highly
dependent on context. Professionalism needs to be seen as a responsibility to
make judgments and decisions in the context of practice. Contemporary
professionalism needs to be underpinned by a professional identity. Professional
identity is about knowing what one stands for i.e., it means becoming aware of
what matters most in practice, what values and interests shape decision making.
Professional identity is closely linked to professionalism which is taking
responsibility for one’s action. So, thinking and acting as a professional are
underpinned by professionalism and a sense of professional identity.
2. CAREER DEVELOPMENT
Career consists of a period of time spent in a job or profession (Merriam-Webster
dictionary). Business dictionary defines career as jobs held and work
accomplished over a long period of time. Career is a general pattern of progress of
a person as an employee. It may involve one or more than one jobs held and
evolving sequence of work sequence (Kapena, 2006).
It is necessary to identify opportunities and constraints within the prevailing
environment. This will help you to focus your efforts on relevant areas and avoid
irrelevant or out of date aspects in the job market. Some of the questions that
should be considered for setting initial career objectives.
Setting initial career objectives
1. Do I really want to teach? If so, what do I want to achieve as a teacher?
2. What are my present strengths? Will they be utilized in teaching?
3. What are my present weaknesses? Are they likely to make teaching very
difficult?
4. What are the connections between my career and my personal life? Are
they compatible?
5. What is the highest priority in my life at present? (For example, is it to
teach a particular subject, to live in the same area, to be near relatives?)
6. Will I want promotion? If so, why? If not, why not?
2.1 Importance of Career Development
Teaching profession is a very challenging and demanding as the teacher is
concerned with the minds of the pupils. Teacher, as a professional, encounter a
number of challenges in their work life. In order to deal with these challenges
effectively and to perform the professional responsibilities in an effective way,
teachers must undergo through a pre-planned career development process.
 Career development is continuous and systematic process. It is not merely a set of
unrelated random activities. It has clear goals and objectives. On the basis of these
goals, content and materials are selected for career development. When teachers
are trying to meet the professional standards for teachers (see section 5.4 of this
chapter), they have to undergo professional development.
2.2 Steps of Successful Career Development
a. Planning: For successful career development, proper planning is first most
important step. Planning involves setting objectives for your career i.e.,
what do you want to achieve in next 05 years in terms of personal and/or
professional development? Personal development may include your
interpersonal and intrapersonal skills whereas professional development
may include further education, subject matter and pedagogical knowledge
and skills. For example, if you want to get higher education or some
refresher courses for pedagogical strategies or some short courses for
updating your subject matter knowledge or some personality development
workshop. You can finalize one or more objectives depending on your
preferences. Another important part of planning is to think about possible
ways to achieve your objectives? A refresher course, further education,
reading related books, seeking guidance of a senior colleague as a mentor,
conferences, seminars, membership of professional organization body e.g.,
Asia-Pacific Regional Network for Early Childhood (ARNEC), Kappa Delta
Pi (KDP), Online Learning Consortium (OLC), ASCD: Supporting
Educators Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.
b. Self-awareness: Second important step is to know your strengths and
weaknesses. It may be related to individual (intrapersonal i.e., selfmanagement,
integrity, emotional intelligence etc.) skills, interpersonal
(listening, communication, negotiation, helping, caring, cooperation,
collaboration) skills and technical or job-related skills (i.e., command on
subject matter and pedagogical skills). National Professional Standards for
teachers in Pakistan demands knowledge, skills and attitude related to a
variety of areas (discussed in detail in section 5.4 of this chapter).
Whenever, a teacher plans for his/her career development, he/she must
direct his/her struggles for career development keeping in mind those
standards. This step is also called self-awareness (Donnelly, 2002).
c. Professional Opportunities: The next step is to improve in your weak areas
by adopting suitable strategies/opportunity e.g., if you need to update your
pedagogical skills, whether you can go for any of one, some or all of options
such as refresher course, or read relevant papers and books, and attend a
seminar or training workshop. Another way to become master in certain
skills is to volunteer for those tasks e.g., if you think that you are weak in
budgeting, take responsibilities related to budgeting for an event. This can
help you to learn the areas in which you are lacking. However, overcoming
weaknesses in skills and experiences requires time, commitment and effort.
An important point for utilizing a professional opportunity is that you need to be
selective about which opportunity you will avail. Not all professional
opportunities can be a wise decision to take. You need to think ask three questions
from yourself:
development, particularly in priority areas you have already identified for
career development?
iii. Would the position lead to other opportunities later, either directly or
indirectly?
Career development is a continuous process. Further, it is also a long term process
comprising of at least three years or more. It is a flexible process in which you
continuously assess what your goals are, where you are with respect to your goals,
and plotting new strategies and directions for your career.
Q. 2 Discuss “Right to Education” in national and international
context.
RIGHT TO EDUCATION IN PAKISTAN
Development of responsible, capable and conscious individuals and societies is
not possible without provision of educational facilities. Education is not only
necessary for every child but it is their basic right hence it is the primary
responsibility of state to enable its citizens to access education. Many countries
has constituted by laws that education is the basic and foremost right of every
individual. Article 37 B of the constitution of Pakistan stated: “the state shall
remove illiteracy and provide free and compulsory secondary education within
minimal possible time”. In 2010, government of Pakistan has also included Right
to Education (RTE) through Article 25 A of the 18th amendment. Amendment to
the constitution is the first step and it is necessary to make law for its proper
implementation in the country. The statement of Article 25 A is as follows: “The
State shall provide free and compulsory education to all children of the age of five
to sixteen years in such manner as may be determined by law”. RTE is
recognized since the Universal declaration of Human Rights (1948) in its article
26 and UNESCO has adopted it as free and compulsory basic education for
children from 1951. Education for All (EFA) is another international movement
and a global commitment for providing basic quality education to all children,
youth and adults. Pakistan is one of the signatories of EFA among 164 countries
and government of Pakistan pledged to achieve all 6 goals of EFA to be met by
2015. The year 2015 has passed and this dream still yet to come true in Pakistan
as we are far behind in achieving the goals of EFA. Pakistan is also committed to
achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of education by the year
2015 but this commitment could not be fulfilled successfully in Pakistan.
According to UNESCO there are many benefits of education: literacy is a human
right and it is also a tool of human, social and personal development. Literacy
skills are at the heart of basic education for all. Basic literacy skills are essential
for reducing the rate of child mortality, achievement of gender equality in
education and other fields, eradicating poverty, controlling over population
growth, and ensuring sustainable development of the country. Sen (1989) states
that quality basic education enables children to have literacy skills of life and for
continuous learners or lifelong learners. It is also observed that if parent are
literate they would send their children to school, literate individuals are able to
access more educational opportunities.
All of the educational policies emphasized free and compulsory education for
children in Pakistan but it could not be achieved in its true spirit. Now primary
and secondary education in Pakistan is free but there are serious concerns over its
quality. Annual Status of Education Reports (ASER) claimed that the quality of
basic education in Pakistan is miserable in the light of students’ performance in
English, Urdu and Mathematics.
3. EDUCATIONAL RIGHTS AND PROFESSIONAL WRONGS
Quality education is the basic right of children everywhere in the world so in
Pakistan as well. Quality education means a type of education where: students
learn from qualified teachers; they have opportunities to learn well and play well;
they feel comfortable in learning environment; they learn according to their pace
of learning; their views are valued; they receive positive feedback from teachers;
they have good relation with their teachers; they get proper attention of the
teachers; they feel secure; they are treated in respectable manners; their needs and
interests are always taken seriously; they have ample opportunities to grow well
academically as well as mentally; their confidence is build; they are loved; they
are encouraged and motivated to go ahead; they are prepared for future life; they
have counseling services; they have more experienced personalities (teachers) for
guidance; they develop themselves as individuals who are morally very strong;
they have morally strong teachers to copy or to observe as role models; they have
opportunities to utilize their potential fully; they have opportunities to interact
with other fellows to develop healthy relationships; they have opportunities to
develop them physically etc. Children have lot of rights and efforts should be
made to fulfill these rights at state level as well as at community level. As an
agricultural country, Pakistani population is not homogenous and most of its
people reside in rural areas where provision of quality education is a great
challenge. Due to absence of quality education and basic health facilities in rural
areas urbanization emerges as a serious challenge.
Professional wrongs mean all actions or behaviors of teachers which are not at par
with existing demand and need of time to prepare students for 21 st century. We
can high light professional wrongs through following indicators.
If teachers enter into the class with smiling face; if they do not show enthusiasm
with profession; if they are not committed to their duties; if they do not know
about national curriculum and use it as guide for teaching learning process; if they
teach students without preparation; if they do not develop links between previous
learning of students with new learning; if they do not broaden and deepen
knowledge base of students; if they do not prepare students mentally for learning;
if they do not involve students in learning process; if they do not encourage
students participation; if they do not value students point of views; if they do not
encourage and motivate students towards learning; if they do not pay individual
attention to the students; if they do not give proper feedback to the students; if
they do not build the confidence of students; if they do not develop links between
new learning and daily life of students; if they do not share updated knowledge of
the subject with students; if they do not share emerging trends and theories of
concern subject matter with students; if they do not consult their fellow colleagues
and other experts; if they do not ensure mastery of learning of subject matter; if
they do not clear the misconception of the students; if they do not quote examples
from daily life for ensuring conceptual learning of students; if they do not apply
different teaching methods according to the nature of topic; if they do not apply
different teaching leaning strategies and tactics for student learning; if they do not
apply students centered teaching learning approaches; if they do not apply
innovative techniques of classroom management; if they do not develop the skills
and dispositions of students apart from knowledge; if they do not develop healthy
relationship with students; if they do not meet with parents for well being of their
students; if they do not use different learning resources in teaching leaning
process; if they do not invite influential from community to improve the overall
environment of the school; if they do not teach students according to their pace
and capability; if they do not help students to know their potential; if they do not
identify hidden capacities of students; if they do not provide guidance and
counseling services to the students; if they do not help students in their holistic
development; if they do not provide opportunities for students to grow
academically, socially, emotionally, psychologically, and physically; if they do
not exhibit strong moral character for students to copy etc. There are so many
other indicators which must be kept in mind while preparing teachers for
preparation of students for healthy and balance future life. Here are some
professional wrongs which we can observe in schools. These are reflected by
teachers when they:
1. Believe teaching is just a job
2. Arrive late regularly, have discipline problems, not sensitive to students’
culture or heritage, express biasness and indulge in paper work during class
instead of working with students
3. Do not address parents concerns properly and lacking in conflict resolution
skills
4. Use inappropriate language, ridicule students, always defensive, having
confrontations with students, and do not own what so ever occur in
classrooms
5. Inconsistent in approach of teaching, monitoring or other tasks
6. Enlist and implement strict rules for classroom and expect nothing from
students
7. Allow students disengagement from learning, unavailable out of classroom,
inappropriate complain, keep class unclean and disorderly, and remain
always unpredictable
8. Not plan lessons, do not keep record of students’ assessment, use single
teaching method, and do not engage students in learning
9. Have poor performance of students, give vague instructions for any task, do
not keep him/her self updated, use outdated material, do not become
innovative, reluctant to change and use poor and improper language.
10. Do not monitor students’ progress; do not allow questions during teaching,
poor link with students and parents, do not apply variety of assessment
strategies and ignore students having special needs
11. Give negative feedback on students work, unwilling to contribute positively
in overall mission and vision of school and submit reports (results, data,
information, minutes etc.) late
Key Points: key points of this topic are as follow;
1. Quality basic education as basic right of children
2. Pakistan commitment with international community for basic education
3. Status of Rite to Education in Pakistan
4. Students rights as students and
5. Professional wrongs of teachers
Learning Activities
1. Take weekly magazine and write a brief note on what was written on
education.
2. Conduct an interview from your teacher and ask what h/she thinks about the
teaching profession
3. After studying this topic what would you like to suggest for revivals of
quality education in public schools?
Self Assessment Questions:
1. When basic education was considered as a right of children?
2. When Pakistan constituted Rite to Education in Pakistan?
3. Which of the Article of Pakistan constitution support basic education as a
right of child in Pakistan?
4. What is meant by educational rights and professional wrongs?
Answer to Self Assessment Questions:
1. Universal Education of Human Rights in 1948
2. 2010
3. Article 25 A 18th amendment
4. Quality education is basic right while role of teachers against the basic
principles of teaching leaning are professional wrongs
4. SCHOOLING
Schools are established to inculcate acceptable habits and behaviors in new
generation. It is also thought that individuals possess knowledge, skills for and
dispositions in schools where they interact with highly qualified, experienced and
knowledgeable personalities. Societies establish schools to preserve and transfer
their culture, traditions and customs to new generation. Curriculum which is
taught in schools actually reflects the overall national thinking. Every community
member needs to ask what are schools for? Like schools families have unique
role to reproduce societies of human beings and these families also create
conditions where human change themselves. School is not a mere building where
teaching learning process takes place but it is hub of all social activities. It is a
place where children interact with one another and with teachers, learn how other
think, how other behave, how other react and respond, how other do and how
other feel. This is a great place of learning for children. They learn how to lead a
well disciplined life. How to think positively and move forward? They plan for
future there, they gain knowledge, they develop their own community of
friendship etc. They develop mentally, socially, emotionally, psychologically,
academically and physically under supervision of experienced teachers.
4.1 Purpose of Schooling
Purposes of schooling through the lenses of research are highlighted here.
According to Good (1999) “academic mastery in subject-matter achievements is
an important goal of modern schools”, social development of students is very
crucial for successful and productive life. Generally academic and social aims
exist within educational system in the world because one element informs the
other. Broadening and deepening of knowledge of students across different
subjects/fields is generally given as primary reason to attend schools. Inclusion of
different subjects in school education is the base of this aim. According to the
National curriculum of Great Britain, the students must have essential skills of
literacy, numeracy, information and communication technologies. Students should
have enquiring mind and capacity of rational thinking. Additionally the national
curriculum also asserts that personal development of children morally, socially,
spiritually and culturally plays important role in their capacity to learn and to achieve
targets. (http://www.nc.uk.net/nc_resources/html/valuesAimsPurposes.html. In
UK, addition to the academic purpose of schooling, character education is known
as personal/social education (PSE). PSE is supposed to be the strong justification
of schooling in UK. PSE is launched to develop character of the students as good
citizens, PSE also helps them to become productive members of their societies
and it also enables them to work in the best interest of public in UK. According
to Arthur (2003) the major aim of character education in UK is to instill virtues so
they become internal principles guiding both the students’ behavior and decision
making for operation within the democracy (p.2). It is also the responsibility of
family, parents and siblings, social and religious organizations, and schools to
play their active role in fostering good character. Such character includes traits
but not limited to: self control, respect for others, duty, industry, fair play and
loyalty (p.5). Schools and teachers can play significant role in fostering
socialization skills in youth for better citizenship (Cornett & Gaudelli, 2003). It is
acknowledge that important purpose of schooling is character building of students
but there is huge debate on how to improve the character of students (Feldmann,
2005). According to Yang (2005) in eastern culture socialist approach is adopted
in schools. Good (1999) claimed that according to Dewey the purpose of
schooling is greater than merely address the academic achievement of students in
different subjects. DuCharme (1993) stated that according to the theory of
Froebelianism, school is a mini-community which reflects the larger and mature
community in which it exists. In short if schools are not fulfilling the needs and
demands of the society, it means they are not on right direction, and something,
somewhere needs to be changed within schooling system. In Pakistan, all
National Five Years Plans and National Education Policies reflect the purposes of
education by setting education goals and skillful teaching force. Here as a
glimpse, we consult our latest National Education Policy (NEP), 2009 according
to which The Planning Commission Government of Pakistan as set a Vision for
“Our education system must provide quality education to our children
and youth to enable them to realize their individual potential and
contribute to development of society and nation, creating a sense of
Pakistani nationhood, the concepts of tolerance, social justice,
democracy, their regional and local culture and history based on the
basic ideology enunciated in the Constitution of the Islamic Republic
of Pakistan.” (NEP, 2009 p. 20)
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NEP has set following aims of education in Pakistan which are also guiding
principles and reflect the national thinking at state level for schooling. These aims
are as follow;
1. Revitalization of existing system of education for catering spiritual, social
and political needs of individuals and society.
2. Sharing of information about our national ideals who led this nation to win a
separate homeland and strengthen the basic Islamic ideology.
3. Inculcation of national unity and nationhood in Pakistan and promotion of
desire to make this country a welfare state.
4. To enable the youth to promote cohesion and to display respect for all
faiths/religious diversity.
5. Promotion of social and cultural harmony through education.
6. Provision of equal educational opportunities for all without distinction of
caste and creed and ensure involvement of all citizens of Pakistan in
national progress.
7. To enable our children to become self reliant, analytical and original
thinkers and productive member of society and a global citizen.
8. Develop total personality of children to make them dynamic, creative and
capable of facing truth.
9. To enable children committed to democratic and moral values, respecting
basic human rights, accepting new ideas, responsible towards duties and
production member of society for common good.
10. Raise the quality of education for revival of confidence of common people
on public education system by setting high standards of inputs, processes
and outputs along with institutionalizing effective monitoring and
assessment system.
These are the aims of education which are directly relating to the schooling
system. These aims can only be achieved when quality education will be ensured
in schools.
Q. 3 Teacher education is confronted with multiple challenges in
list 21st century. Give suggestion to overcome.
Teacher Education:
The purpose of teacher education is to produce teachers who have professional
competencies. The role of teachers is no longer confined to teaching alone. They
need to be thorough professionals, fully equipped with high academic standard,
pedagogical and practical skills. In this age of globalization, we need to make the
system of teacher education more innovative and futuristic in order to respond to
the changing demands of the society. To maintain the standards and to update the
quality of teacher education we require commitment and training of people
concerned.
Teacher educators thus have to be motivated enough to plan for their own
personal and professional development. They are expected to take responsibility
and take charge for their own learning and development. As such self-discipline
and self-regulation are the key factors responsible for success.
Effective teacher education prepares new teachers for a role which is both
complex and demanding. Accomplished teaching simultaneously involves
command of subject matter and how to teach it to diverse students. Putting all this
into practice on a daily basis is extremely demanding in the age of globalization
(Kaur, 2010).
The basic role of teacher education is to:
Train teachers to teach pre-school children.
Train teachers to teach primary school children.
Train teachers to teach secondary school children. Train teachers to teach higher
secondary children.
At all these levels besides having mastery over the subject to be taught the
teachers also require different skills like – identifying the needs of the learner,
selecting appropriate methods of teaching and learning aids etc. Besides these
they also need to have catered to the all-round development of children. The role
of teacher education hence has a very vital role to play as its products go and
work right from the grass root level of the society.
As we move ahead in the 21st century with LPG as our driving theme our entire
focus should be on our product. What we need to emphasize is the quality by
giving the necessary self-confidence through competence both in theory and its
application. Both should be inter-linked so as to make his learning effective and
applicable in his real life too. Our aim should be to make him face the real
challenges in the life. Teacher education should concentrate on making our
teacher’s techno savvy. We need to use the technology for our own benefit.
Teacher education should develop multi-skills among our teachers so that they are
able to use technology in the teaching-learning and also participate in the process
of creation of new knowledge. Teacher education also needs to look into
innovative ways of evaluation along with teachers learning (Vartak, 2004).
Challenges in Teacher Education:
Quality assurance: With the increasing participation of the private institutions
and the ever rising thrust on autonomy for the existing institutions, it is imperative
that demands would be made on quality assurance.
Professionalism: Though we regard teacher education as a profession, we are
different when we compare ourselves with the other professions like medicine,
engineering etc. We are still tentative about the importance of the pre-service and
in-service training in acquiring the required knowledge and skills by our students.
The one year training program a pre-requisite for becoming a teacher is rigorous
no doubt, but it is somewhat rigid. We are more driven by the form of the course
rather than the content. Ability to generate new ideas, commitment and dedication
in our work is essential to make ourselves professionals.
Technology: We want to introduce new technology in teacher education.
Introduction of ICT and computer training in our course is a step in that direction.
The experience so far shows that teacher educators are not adept at using the
computer in the teaching-learning process since their recently acquired knowledge
is restricted only to the use of standard software applications. We need to become
more focused on the systematic use of technology for making the teaching
learning process more interactive and enjoyable. Technology should be harnessed
for increasing our participation in the process of creation of new knowledge.
Attracting Talent: Attracting talent into the teaching profession remains one of
the major challenges before us today. The number of merit holder students opting
for teaching profession is very few. We need to reflect this situation. There is
always a talk that the teachers have to keep themselves abreast with the latest
trends, knowledge and skills through self-study, be innovative and creative
through participation in varied academic activities and research. This is possible
only if we can attract talented people in the profession who are self-motivated and
self-inspired.
Evaluation system: Generating a reliable evaluation system is another important
challenge before us. Teacher educators need to look into innovative, objective,
open and transparent methods of evaluation which will test the application of
knowledge along with the comprehension. We should encourage pupils to face
competitive exams effectively.
Equity: The greatest challenge before us even today is the search for equity.
Equity refers to the equity in the development of all abilities of the individual and
it also means the equity in the development of all the strata of the society. Head,
Hand and Heart are three powerful tools given to everyone by God. But today we
are becoming a knowledge society.
Need of the present study: The standards of learning are influenced strongly by
teacher’s capacity, understanding and skills. School education can achieve the
intended objectives of national reconstructions only if there are corresponding
reflections of the same concerns in the programs of teacher education, as teacher
it is the pivot on which the outcomes expected of any educational system can
blossom.
Research has shown that good teaching makes a big and qualitative difference in
students learning with the help of its effectiveness, efficiency and competency.
An important demand for the achievement of the cherished goal of having a good
and effective teaching system is a mechanism that could work for the
development of course, instructor and learner (Singh, 2007).
The quality of pre-service and in-service teacher education also needs to be
upgraded. Teacher education is stepping stone in the building of future teacher
and tries to in build qualities in teacher. Hence there is urgent need to develop
new models of teacher education.
2. TEACHING PROFESSION AND ODL
Now that most countries have made solid progress towards the achievement of
universal primary schooling by 2015, the world faces two other major educational
challenges. The first, which results partly from the success of the campaign for
primary education, is to give older children and young adults opportunities for
secondary schooling. This is a massive task. One estimate puts the number of12-
to 17-year-olds who are not receiving education at 400 million (Binder
2006).Scarcely less daunting is the second global challenge which is the need to
recruit and train many millions of teachers. UNESCO estimates that some 10
million teachers must be recruited and trained in less than a decade. They will b
needed to: replace the large numbers of teachers due to retire in many countries;
complete the drive to universal primary schooling, particularly in Africa and
South Asia; and address the challenge of secondary schooling (UNESCO 2008).
Teacher education and open and distance learning (ODL) are separately complex
and critically important fields of endeavors. Used together, they have the potential
to enhance the effective, efficient and equitable provision of education and to
maximize access to such provision by various categories of disadvantaged
learners.
Why is it so important to use ODL to design, implement, evaluate and enhance
teacher education? A useful starting point is the aspiration of Education for
All(articulated in declarations in Justine, Thailand, in 1990, and in Dakar,
Senegal, in 2000), and accompanied by a stated international commitment to
achieving Universal Elementary Education (Daniel 2009; Dyer 2009).
If we turn to the six goals of Education for All as outlined in the Dakar
Framework for Action (UNESCO 2000), we perceive some of the complexity of
the challenges facing efforts to attain those goals:
1. Expanding and improving comprehensive early childhood care and
education, especially for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children;
2. Ensuring that by 2015 all children, particularly girls, children in difficult
circumstances and those belonging to ethnic minorities, have access to and
complete free and compulsory primary education of good quality;
3. Ensuring that the learning needs of all young people and adults are met
through equitable access to appropriate learning and life skills programs;
4. Achieving a 50% improvement in levels of adult literacy by 2015, especially
for women, and equitable access to basic and continuing education for all
adults;
5. Eliminating gender disparities in primary and secondary education by2005,
and achieving gender equality in education by 2015, with a focus on
ensuring girls’ full and equal access to and achievement in basic education
of good quality; and
6. Improving all aspects of the quality of education and ensuring excellence of
all so that recognized and measurable learning outcomes are achieved by all,
especially in literacy, numeracy and essential life skills.”
While these are clearly highly diverse statements of intention traversing a widely
ranging terrain, they are linked by a common reliance on a highly skilled teaching
force attentive to the specific needs of these various categories of learners, and
able to deploy strategies that are successful in meeting those needs. This reliance
in turn relies on the teachers’ own learning needs – in terms of initial pre-service
training and continuing professional development – being fulfilled. Yet, as
illustrated by the difficulties facing teachers working with Nigerian nomadic
pastoralists (Umarand Tahir 2009), these requirements generate demand for high
quality teachers that cannot easily be achieved at individual, provincial and
national levels using conventional face-to-face, campus-based teacher education
strategies.
While it is important not to see ODL as a panacea that can redress existing socioeconomic inequities and
political instability easily, the opportunities for largescale educational provision afforded by information
and communication
technology (ICT) and other technologies deserve to be recognized and considered
carefully. Moreover, it is not only the technological dimension that is significant:
ODL is designed to break the demand for face-to-face attendance at particular
institution, which places additional obstacles in the way of streamlined access to
such education. This form of learning is therefore intimately connected to efforts
to democratize educational provision. Again, enthusiastic and energetic teachers
are needed, both as participants in and as purveyors of ODL.
Thus, it is essential to strengthen and expand existing teacher education systems
particularly in developing countries if they are to address the current and
projected shortfalls in teacher supply adequately and thereby facilitate the
attainment of the goals of Education for All by 2015.
This important point was encapsulated in a 2009 report by the UNESCO Institute
for Statistics (USIS), projecting the Global Demand for Teachers: Meeting the
Goal of Universal Primary Education by 2015. According to the report, 10.3
million teachers will be needed worldwide by 2015 if universal primary education
is to be attained. Sub-Saharan Africa faces the most severe teacher shortfalls. TheUSIS report (2009,p. 15)
observed that:
“Of the 10.3 million teachers needed, 8.1 million will be deployed to
maintain the current capacity of education systems (i.e compensate for
attrition). About 2.2 million recruits will be needed to expand
education systems in order to achieve UPE [Universal Primary
Education] …. In other words, one in five teachers that need to be
hired by 2015 will be part of global efforts toward EFA. This reflects
the massive investment which is required by governments. This
perspective highlights the dramatic burden for sub-Saharan Africa.
The region needs to recruit and train about 1.1 million teachers to
maintain the current situation in the classroom, which already falls
short in terms of education quality. But to attain UPE, these countries
must recruit an additional 1.3 million teachers, bringing the total to2.4
million. In short they will need to recruit almost as many teachers in
just eight years as are currently teaching in classrooms across the
region.”
This huge need for teachers in Africa and other developing countries is alarming
if viewed in the context of the limited capacity of teacher education institutions to
address it while simultaneously upgrading the large proportion of untrained or
unqualified teachers already in the system and providing adequate opportunities
for teachers’ continuing professional development. As Umar (2004, p. ii)
summarized the situation: “Teacher recruitment, retention and professional
development are increasingly becoming the key issues in the quest for adequate
supply for teachers at all levels of education.”
All of this reinforces the potential value of ODL for teacher education, and indeed
most governments in Africa and other developing countries recognize the
possibilities of ODL in helping to address the severe teacher gaps in the
irrespective countries. This is partly because the experiences of many developed
and developing countries have shown that, if properly organized and managed,
ODL can enable countries to train a larger number of teachers in a shorter time
and with lower costs than can conventional campus-based teacher education.
The work of Robinson and Latchem (2003) and the international case studies on
the use of ODL for teacher education in Perraton et al. (2007) indicate that ODL
is increasingly being used to:
provide cost-effective pre-service and in-service teacher education;
support school-based pre-service and continuing professional development
programmers for teachers;
upgrade unqualified teachers and enable qualified teachers to acquire higher
teaching qualifications;
provide teachers in remote or rural areas with access to professional
training, thereby meeting their continuing professional development needs;
and
Ensure quick dissemination of information to large numbers of teachers
about curriculum innovations, new teaching methodologies and practices,
and new professional standards for teaching.
This snapshot illustrates both the complexity and the urgency of enhancing the
intersection between teacher education and ODL.
Q. 4 Explain importance of social and cultural context in
teaching learning process.
1.1 Importance of the Social Context of Teaching and Learning
Social interactions between student and teachers contribute to create healthy
learning process and it has implications for both student development and teacher
development. Numerous researchers have found that the teacher-student
relationship can have positive effects on student development, academic
achievement, and cognitive development, determination in higher education,
students ‘personality development, and educational aspirations (Pascarella, 1980;
Terenzini & Pascarella, 1980 Volkwein, King, and Terentini. 1986). . Teacherstudent
interaction is more significant if it is linked with students’ development.
Social context provide the opportunities for meaningful advisement, development
of friendships, and testing of ideas and talents.
Latest reviews of the literature that aim to identify the principles underlying
teaching and learning have authenticated the significance of the social context. An
early pioneer Rogers (1969) found that the facilitation of meaningful learning
based upon certain attitudinal qualities which exist in the personal relationship
between the teacher and the learner. Rogers (1969) argued that learning does not
only depend upon the teacher’s leadership skills, mastery of content, planning
skills, integration of technology, programmed learning and books. It shows, there
has been increasing recognition of the importance of the social context.
The key characteristics of successful teaching fall naturally into two main
categories in which the interpersonal relation and clarity of presentation
(Lowman, 1984). The literature on teaching and learning gives them about equal
weight in their influence on teaching effectiveness. Seven principles of good
practice in undergraduate education were extracted from fifty years of research on
teaching and learning. These seven principles showed that good teacher
encourages contacts between students and faculty, develops mutuality and
collaboration among students, uses active learning techniques, gives quick
feedback, emphasizes in time completion of task, communicates high
expectations, and respects individual differences and other ways of learning.
Many of these general principles are related to the social context of teaching and
learning. This study supported by the American Association for Higher Education
and the Education Commission of the States (Chickering & Gamson, 1989).
1.2 Learner-Centered, Self-Directed Instruction
Rogers (1983) has reviewed experiential literature to support the conclusion that
student behaviors such as talking, participation and instigation and teacher
behavior such as smiling, realization to student’s self-belongingness and students’
autonomy all promote effective learning and personal growth. Recent research has
implied the power of the social context on learner-centered instruction. Teachers’
smiling and joking-has a significant positive influence on the interpersonal
climate, even when students are sitting and listening to lectures.
Cranton and Hillgarmer (1981) found such characteristics as teachers’ enthusiasm
and rapport to be responsible for better learning and a more positive attitude
toward teaching. Later Murray (1983) and Erdle, Murray, and Rushton (1985)
have found that teachers ‘sense of humor expressed in lectures are correlated with
high student ratings. According to Greeson, (1985, 1986, 1988), effective social
arrangements are different ways that teachers and students relate to one another it
is not merely things that teachers do. Further, Greeson’s studies are concerned
with the broader social arrangements between teacher and student. His
examination of teachers’ and students’ behavior under both student-centered and
teacher centered instruction indicates that student-centered instruction can
enhance the dynamics of interaction between teachers and learners in classroom
settings. In student-centered classroom increase the responsibilities of learner and
make them self -responsible towards task completion. Student -centered
approaches are popular today as a welcome corrective to other methods; their
popularity attests to how skewed instruction in higher education has become
toward teacher-centeredness.
1.3 Cooperative Teaching and Learning
An instructional strategy in which students work in a small group to achieve the
common goals is called cooperative learning (Cooper & Mueck, 1989). This
perspective is currently moving from K- 12 into higher education promises to
bring change dramatically the social arrangements between teachers and students.
Mill (1990) has summarized the main features of cooperative learning. There is
interdependency of group members in cooperative learning. Learners
accountability in which no student can get spare from group members, because
course grades largely reflect individual learning. Groups are formed on the bases
of heterogeneity in which mixed ability students differences in learning abilities,
cultural diversity, and gender. Leadership skills in group work are designed to
build team skills and social skills to help students engage in cooperative
interaction and show mutual respect. Slavin (1989-90). Research on cooperative
learning documented its advantages for K-12 settings. However, recent collegebased
research have also supported similar conclusions in which cooperative
learning is more effective, more fun, and leads to greater student involvement and
cooperative group skills (Millis, 1990).
This paradigm of cooperative learning has shifted the role of teachers becomes
facilitator rather than the lecturing authority (Finkel & Monk, 1983). Teacher’s
role is expanded beyond the typical product model of simply presenting
information and evaluating (Schon, 1987). Now the teachers, main role is to
facilitate-to set tasks for the group and guide the group toward cooperation and
interdependence. The teacher’s role in cooperative learning has been linked with
Rogers’s client-centered theory (Hassard, 1990). It entails a conscious shift of
perspective on the part of the teacher towards the cooperation and facilitation of
instruction by keeping away from authoritarianism. Teachers remained successful
in securing and creating well-designed, team-oriented tasks for learners who have
incorporated this philosophy into their classrooms.
1.4 Communication Theory
Watzlawick, Beavin, and Jackson (1967). They argue that “every communication
has a content and a relationship aspect such that the latter classifies the former”
(p. 54). Possibly the most relevant treatment of communication for our purposes is
the social interaction theory. The meaning of a message is inherently dependent
on this contexts consisting of human relationships. Simpson and Galbo (1986) has
applied this theory to the classroom who discuss the influence of relationships on
communication. Simpson and Galbo (1986) argue that if the quality of the
relationship is as important to communication then the association between
teacher and students is important to efficient communication. Furthermore, it
seems that communication make relationship stable that directly contributes to
effectiveness. (Pascarella, 1980) Explained perhaps this is why informal
interaction between teacher and students is linked with positive outcomes.
Another idea Simpson and Galbo (1986) applied to teaching and learning from the
Watzlawick theory that any communication is a function of the unique interaction
at the time it takes place. The quality of particular interaction is determined by the
time of encounter and the contextual situations in which communication occur
between individuals. Therefore, quality of a particular interaction is not
predicable. Thus, teachers cannot decide with certainty that how students will
respond to the various parts of a learning. Teachers must rely upon information
obtained through interacting with students during the class to determine some of
the ultimate specifics of instruction (Simpson & Galbo, 1986). Seeking and using
information on the spot during teaching is a high level professional skill Teachers
required high professional skills to seeking and using information on the spot
about their students that is little understood and poorly researched, according to
Simpson and Galbo (1986). Effective teachers know how to use their personalities
to inspire and stimulate connections between students’ previous experiences and
the subject matter. Teachers’ personality is viewed as the instrument of
instruction. Researchers seek methods that are independent of personality.
Simpson and Galbo (1986,) turn the traditional assumption on its head. Much of
the research about classroom instruction has attempted to control the teacher’s
personality as a variable. The more productive course of action may be to control
for method and to make the teacher’s personality the experimental variable.”
Jones (1989) found that the students of different ages and institutions typically
report two indicators which they linked with good teachers. These two factors
include technical and person logical. Person logical factor gained much more
importance as it help the students to achieve the feelings of self-worth. Teachers’
personality is an important and valid factor. Students rating of effective teachers’
competence depend upon the perceptions of teachers’ personalities as well as of
their technical competence (Jones, 1989).Teacher-student relationship has gained
much importance in educational process (DeVito, 1986). Relational approach to
teaching can be best understood and improved by defining it as a process of
relational development. DeVito (1986) presents nine relationship skills
highlighting openness, sympathy, supportiveness, fairness, collaboration, trust and
interaction-that can help teachers to enhance their effectiveness. Teachers should
able to build relationships between student and teachers. They should encourage
meaningful dialogue and serve as a role model. Teachers should be reflective and
be able to able to relinquish control to students.
Feedback is another central theme of communication theory. It is considered one
of the dominant mechanisms of experiential learning and action research (Kolb,
1984), sensitivity training (Lakin, 1972), and laboratory methods of personal and
organizational change. Descriptive feedback enhanced both teaching and learning
that occurs in the course of interaction between teachers and students (Schein &
Bennis, 1965). Interaction in group is linked to feedback. This is true in the
dynamic teacher student relationship as in tutoring or advising and in the
classroom group(Billson, 1986). When students are given the autonomy to define
issues, problems, and projects, work can be broken into discrete blocks that can be
targeted, attempted, and mastered, with many opportunities for immediate
feedback, criticism, redirection, and consultation. The cognitive aspect points the
critical role of feedback plays in mastery learning (Guskey, 1988).
Other aspects focus on making goals more transparent to students. Cross (1988)
Cross & Angelo (1988) research indicated that teachers and learners cannot share
responsibility for the effectiveness of education if the learner has no idea of the
goals planned by the teacher and the teacher has no idea of how the learner is
progressing toward those goals. Teachers do not always like to teach they asked in
the test while students tend to study what they think will be tested. Teachers
remain busy to cover the whole content and learners are busy in psyching out
exams. This gap between teaching and testing presents and hindrance to the
sharing of responsibilities and to teacher-learner collaboration. The best way to
bridge this gap and to bring learner and teachers into collaboration is to use a
technique that teaches and assess students simultaneously. For instance, requiring
students to practice critical thinking as part of a learning exercise can both teach
the skill and test it. Learning goals cannot be clearly articulated unless they are
well defined and assessed. Cross and Angel (1988) present over forty classroom
assessment techniques that double as teaching tools. one of the tool recommended
by cross (1988) developed at Harvard called the Teaching Goals Inventory (TGI),
intended to help teachers clarify their teaching goals. In addition to this she is now
designing assessment measures, these measures will help teachers regulate how
close students are to achieve the goals. Recent research indicates that the use of
learning contracts to encourage sharing of responsibility for learning is not new,
that they may provide a useful way to teach students some self-directed learning
skills (Knowles, 1975; Rossman, 1982).
Research showed that interactive learning experience helps students to achieve
their educational goals enables them to identify the resources required to complete
different kinds of tasks (Caffarella & Caffarella, 1986).Curricular changes can be
improved by students feedback, shared responsibility to empowering students and
development of written material. However the role of students in these areas is not
highly encouraged by the teachers. Teachers usually do not believe that their
lectures or course materials such as outlines and syllabi could be improved by
student input. Menges and Brinko (1986) research indicated there are evidences
that both lectures and the design of teaching materials (Medley-Mark and Weston,
1988) can be greatly improved by the help of student feedback, cooperation, and
assessment.
2. CULTURAL CONTEXT
The progressive approach change in the schools was occurring in the most recent
decade of twentieth century. Educators have found themselves capable to expand
the nature of training and enhance results for students so as to make a more
talented and instructed work environment. Levin (1998) has referred to both
created and creating economies alike an approach pestilence which is conveyed
by operators, for example, the World Bank and the OECD. Because of this
strategy instruction is consider as a key fixing in the national financial
advancement procedures. Certain elements have made national legislature of
western industrialized countries concentrate on the nature of their necessary
tutoring frameworks. These components specifically are moves in social
dispositions and normal auxiliary issues, for example, changing work designs,
maturing populaces, youth joblessness, neediness, avoidance and the osmosis of
financial vagrants.
In 1991 Maastricht Treaty has set instruction under the specialist of the European
Union (EU) inside the Europe. National training frameworks are feeling obligated
to take part in some type of rebuilding and realignment, in spite of the guideline
of subsidiary which implies that EU law must be surrounded in connection to
existing national needs and practice. Both in Europe and past, an intense talk has
guaranteed that the market, managerialism and performativity have consolidated
to make what Ball (2003) has alluded to as three interrelated 'arrangement
advancements' which have been utilized to control crafted by educators and the
execution of schools. These adjustments in the direction of instruction
frameworks have incited observers to guess on the effect which such changes are
having on the wide range of instructors' work and the degree to which they can
hold their independence as experts (Apple, 1986; Ball, 1994; Hargreaves, 1994;
Robertson, 1996; Helsby, 1999; Smyth, Dow, Hattam, Reid, and Shacklock,
2000). Sadly, an inclination for some approach research to concentrate on either
the meta-story of significant moves in the control and administration of training
frameworks, or the assessment of individual activities can fortify an
administrative point of view of the strategy procedure. Age and execution have
been developed as unmistakable and separate 'minutes', with age took after by
usage in an immediate, straight manner. This can offer ascent to an auxiliary
functionalist way to deal with approach investigation which searches for
confirmation of 'data sources' and 'yields' and expect a shut arrangement of basic
leadership (Bowe and Ball, 1992). Strategy moves toward becoming what
government does, expecting a reasonable, 'top-down' and robotic process in which
usage is clear and unproblematic. Such a view appreciates what occurs in the
'black box' of usage, and puts less accentuation on the part of the included onscreen
characters or 'road level officials' (Lipsky, 1980) who can impact, or
subvert, arrangement during the time spent execution.
The ensuing area talks about the effect of approaches on the components
included. These elements may differ significantly because of the specific social
setting inside which they are arranged. Thusly, a strategy which might be
worldwide in inception can be interceded by national instructive factors, for
example, societies at school and educator level, bringing about altogether
different elucidations and reactions. Organization and structure both coordinate to
deliver new elucidations of educators' work in various social settings. It is
especially critical not to limit the pretended by educators' convictions and
qualities in translating, obliging state approach. So as to see this case this part
audits near discoveries on educators' work in a few European nations. near
discoveries on educators' work drawing especially upon a program of expressly
relative research which has analyzed the effect of national approach change on
instructors' work and expert character.
Q. 5 Describe general principles of ethics in teaching. How these are
practised in our educational institutions.
GENERAL PRINCIPLE OF ETHICS IN TEACHING
3.1 Justice
An action is considered to be right when all people treating fairly. Justice is
mainly related with the duties and rights of all stakeholders and its emphasizes the
fairness and equity of an action (Dempster & Berry,2003).
3.2 Care
The care perspective emphasizes empathy and caring as well as the network of
relationships. An action is right when it satisfies stakeholder’s needs and desires
and leads to their growth (Feng, 2011).
3.3 Utilitarianism
Utilitarianism perspective is concerned with outcomes. It emphasizes that the
consequence of an action determine its moral worth. An action is right because it
leads to the greatest good and the least bad on the basis of utilitarian
considerations. Teacher, principal should always act to maximum benefit of
students and minimum harm for the greatest number of stakeholders (Feng, 2011).
3.4 Critique
The critique perspective emphasizes decision makers’ recognizing inequities in
both schools and society. An action is right when it leads to equal opportunities
for stakeholders by breaking oppression, privileges, and inequalities. School
leaders should critically reflect on the ideology that people take for granted and
probe unreasonable details when making decisions. Overall, the focus of this

perspective is on addressing inconsistencies and inequalities in life to achieve real

social justice.
3.5 Virtue
The virtue perspective emphasizes a person’s moral character. Virtues are a
person’s disposition to act in a certain way and are cultivated by practice in daily
life to facilitate a certain way of acting and living.
4. ETHICAL ISSUES PERTAINING TO THE ROLE OF
TEACHER
Teaching is associated with physical, mental, social, psychological and moral
upbringing of students. Teacher plays a significant role in development of all
aspects of life. The demand from the teacher increases when she is performing
her duties that what is the major responsibility of teacher? To answer this
question considered the major assumption which society expect that teacher is
a moral agent. Teacher is a role model; he/she has to perform according to the
requirements of cultural or traditional values. Carr, (2000) stated, the teachers
are conceived as the representative or custodian of a specific set of civilized
standards and value predicted on a traditionalist idea of education as the
transmission of culture.
Teachers play multiple tasks in daily life; an imperative role is transmission of
morality towards next generation. Teacher performs moral duty formally and
informally, he/she is considered to be same role inside and outside the classroom.
Ways to transmit moral messages:
Show moral and ethical behavior himself
Model good behavior and attitudes in classroom
Story telling
Respecting students
Peaceful environment
Being nice, polite and thoughtful
Well behaved
The moral duty of teacher:
Handle students with care
Positive relationship with students and other staff members
Acting best interest of students
Classroom environment (Catherine. E, 2011).
Knowledge and expertise of teachers
Academic and theoretical knowledge
Cultural custodian
Facilitator of inquiry
Communicator, management, organization for effective teaching (Carr,2000)
Using rapid incremental innovation
Empowering others
Emphasizing thinking over memorizing
Applying knowledge
Fitting one’s teaching to one’s own style
Maintain dignity of the student
Fairness
Responsibility (Joyce & Rober, 2003).
4.1 Ethical Role Pertaining to the Role of Teacher
4.2 Moral Person
Campbell,(2013) presented notion of teacher as a moral person. Teacher conveys
his/her thoughts, ideas, values to next generation deliberately or in deliberately.
The all positive and negative aspect of teacher personality is being part of
student’s personality. So, it is necessary for the teacher that he/she possesses good
ethical attributes. Now days, it is a big ethical issue towards teachers
responsibility.
4.3 Moral Educator
Teachers does not always been a good moral character. While this is the process
exchanging these virtues to their students. Teacher should consider consciously
that students are gaining these ethics directly or indirectly.
4.4 Student Teacher Relationship
Teacher deals with students in their daily life, in these days student teacher
relationship is not based on attitudes, intentions and good moral values.
4.5 Self Awareness
Awareness of what is right and wrong? This should be part of teacher’s character
that he knows what the criteria of being right and wrong.
4.6 Fairness and Care
It is the right of students to treat students evenly, fairness in dealing day to day
activities, conversations, and teachings. Provide opportunities to every student
fairly. It is mandatory for teacher:
Enforcing school and class rules
Marking and assessing students
Displaying their work publically
Assigning tasks
Granting favors
Calling on them to respond to question in class
Arranging them in groups and seating patterns
Engaging them in personal exchanging with individuals
Assigning and enforcing teat dates and homework deadline.
Participation of all students in performing classroom duties(tiding up room,
row monitoring, cleaning the black board)
Same students does always do the same duty
4.7 Formal Responsibility
The formal responsibilities of teacher are an immense ethical issue for the whole
educational process such as at planning phase, classroom management and
classroom control.
Teacher formal responsibility in terms of:
Academic objectives
Efficiency strategies
Control techniques
Effective planning (selection of reading material according to the wellbeing
of students)
Structuring lessons
5. ETHICAL ISSUE PERTAINING TO EDUCATION
5.1 Right to Education
Due to the importance of education in Islam, The Holy Prophet (PBUH) said:
“Getting knowledge is obligatory to every Muslim man and woman”. It is the
moral duty of government and concerned authorities to provide opportunities for
students.
5.2 Should Teacher Students be Friends?
Schooling is the act of interacting people with each other towards the mutual goal.
Here the related persons are student and teacher. Nowadays, the renowned
philosophy of education leads towards the friendship relationships of student
teacher. But, the addressing question here is that should teacher exceed the limits
or should provide some measures to maintain positive relations.
5.3 To What Extent Help is Required?
This issue is more considerable that is more required in relationship of principals,
teachers and students.
5.4 Communication
Communication is the heart of any educational process whether it is carried in
classroom or beyond the classroom. Being polite and humble can uplift the ethical
environment of schools.
5.5 Conflict Management
Conflicts can be easily resolved, by adopting ethical frameworks.
(www.miamiherald,.com/news/locals/ethics)
5.6 Language of Learning
Biesta (2006) found concept of the language of learning. In this regard, he has
identified four contributing trends which influence on ethic in educational system:
1) new theories of learning which shifted the attention to students and their
activities rather than teachers and teaching, where learning became more
central and teaching conceptualized in terms of facilitating learning;
2) postmodern doubt framed education as a modern project in need of
questioning;
3) the growing market for non-formal adult learning as a mainly individualistic
activity has made use of the word learning
4) with the destruction of the welfare state the relationship between
governments and citizen has bee, in many cases, re-conceptualized into an
economical relationship between the provider and the consumer of public
services. All of these trends contribute to rise of the language of learning.
Above mentioned trends in education narrows teachers’ possibilities for
professional influence on the educational system.