Inflicting Risks of Teacher Education in BRICS Countries: Discussion in Search of Quality Training
https://doi.org/10.26907/esd.19.4.08
EDN: KOOMAG
Abstract
Teacher training has been increasingly emphasized to improve the educational quality of a country and it is based on factors like inheritance and preservation of ethics of society, expectations of people, policy matters, and teachers. Teacher education policies and the role of respective regulatory bodies is well defined in every country but there are many deficiencies in the training of teachers. It is happening in many of the BRICS countries also. Factors like attitude of people towards teaching profession, commercialization of educational institutions, theoretical curriculum, irrelevant pedagogy, defective methods of evaluation have made this volcano to explode now. Managers, teacher educators and student teachers are more responsible for adopting shortcut ways. Factors like lack of infrastructure, research innovations, rational recruitment policy, low salary and social status further add to the problem.
The need of this study is to find the deficiencies, as major risk factors. The study is based on authoritative inspection visit outputs of teacher education institutes in various states of India, policy documents and functionality of regulatory bodies to diagnose the problem for immediate remedial decisions.
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