Showing papers in "Contemporary Education Dialogue in 2009"
TL;DR: The authors argue that teacher empowerment is a necessary condition for quality education and social transformation, but this has been systematically neglected by policy makers and educational plannings, and this has led to teacher suicides.
Abstract: The paper argues that teacher empowerment is a necessary condition for quality education and social transformation, but this has been systematically neglected by policy makers and educational plann...
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TL;DR: In this paper, a qualitative enquiry, based on interviews with teacher educators and student-teachers, examines teacher preparation programs from the point of view of enabling student teachers to practice and implement creative teaching.
Abstract: This qualitative enquiry, based, on interviews with teacher educators and student–teachers, examines teacher preparation programmes from the point of view of enabling student–teachers to practice and implement creative teaching. Although the respondents held a process view of creativity and conceived of creative teaching within the constructivist framework, this broad–based conceptualisation did not appear to translate into the actual process of teacher preparation which seemed to be characterised by a more narrow vision and by several limitations in practice. Creativity was seen as a value-addition rather than as being integral to the teacher education programmes, and did not seem to be consciously planned for. It seemed that the contents of the syllabus and the activities of lesson planning and observations as practices themselves limited the scope for ‘creative’ teaching. Wherever it was a part of the process, it was through the educators’ and student–teachers’ intrinsic motivation and interest; these instances however, demonstrate the importance of bringing and facilitating creativity in teacher preparation.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the status of policy reforms over the years and their implications on educational administration are discussed. But, the focus of the survey was on the administrative structures and practices of secondary education.
Abstract: The present paper is based on a country wide survey of administration of school education in India. The paper discusses the status of policy reforms over the years and their implications on educational administration. It notes that administrative structures and practices of secondary education have failed to respond to the increases in enrolment and monitoring of quality. It identifies some key areas of structure and function that need urgent reform in the context of universalising secondary education and the launch of the Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan.
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