PROFESSIONALIZING THE TEACHER AND TEACHER EDUCATION FOR GLOBAL WORLD

Education

National Conference on “Value Education Through Teacher Education”

Globalization is the comprehensive term for the emergence of a global society in which economic, political, environmental, and cultural events in one part of the world quickly come to have significance for people in other parts of the world. Globalization tells us about the growing economic, political, technological, and cultural connections that connect individuals, communities, businesses, and governments around the world. There are many challenges before the teaching profession. Firstly, teachers need to radically adapt to the new skills, techniques, methods and demands and secondly a change in the mind set to take up new responsibilities. It is only then that the teacher can be professionalized. In order to prepare the new age teachers, the system of teacher education has to adapt new challenges faced by the system. Systemic changes have to be made to prepare the global teacher. The globalization concept, if taken into account, would require that teachers and teaching should be recognized like all other professions and should require stringent training and acquisition of knowledge and skills and professional registration under a global council of unified teacher registration body to allow for easy mobility of teachers across national boundaries. The present paper emphasizes on the meaning of globalization, features of globalization, global education, professionalizing the teacher and higher education for global world.

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