GLOBALIZATION

 GLOBALIZATION

* globalization meaning

* Types of globalization

* political globalization

* cultural globalization

Q2): Comment in detail how globalization is changing the teacher education?

Ans. Teacher professionalism and globalization

Globalization is a process of integrating the nation state by removing or minimizing the restrictions on the movement of material resources, financial resources, labor, technology and ideas. It stands for outward oriented policies which are supposed to benefit all the countries of the world and also create certain problems in that process. Through it is predominantly an economic phenomenon, there are other dimensions as well and in a way it affects all walks of life. Education is an important sector in any economy and globalization has its implications for this sector as well.

The impact of globalization on teacher education and the manner in which the system should respond to the needs of globalization can be studied under the following heads:

Content of education:

The fast-developing stock of knowledge and the need for its continuous updating has also initialed. No longer is education confined to a particular period of life. A key to the twenty first century, learning throughout life will be essential for adapting the evolving requirements of new generation and for better mastery of time from the rhythms of individual existence.

Equity and excellence:

An important component of globalization in relation to education is the need for producing quality manpower that can successfully face the competition in the world. This would imply selecting the best possible human material and giving them education of the highest quality.

Quality and excellence have become the watchwords of the new millennium everywhere, importance of teacher education in making an educational system work more efficiently and effectively is the important factor of it. No system of education can rise above the level of teachers. Teachers must be trained and educated properly. Quality teachers education must, therefore be our primary concern.

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 through 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 of the society. To maintain the standards and to update the quality of teacher education we require commitment and training of people concerned.

Effective teacher education prepare 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.

The basic role of teacher education is to:

Train teacher to teach pre-school children.

Train teacher to teach primary school children.

Train teacher to teach secondary school children.

Train teacher to teach higher secondary school children.

At all these levels beside 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. Beside these they also need to have catered to the all-round development of children.