Varma, Vijaya
(2009)
The agency of school teachers.
Learning Curve (12).
pp. 34-36.
Abstract
Experiments with reforms in school
education in India, like the Hoshangabad
Science Teaching Programme, have shown
that teachers are critical to the enterprise
of quality education. Whenever a teacher
buys into the idea of reform, the reforms stand
a chance of succeeding, but whenever a teacher
is hostile or indifferent, the reforms are headed
for failure.So the question is why are these principles to be
found more in the breach than in the observance? In the
remainder of this brief article we will try and examine
some of the reasons why this could be so.summarise, what we have argued in this brief
article is that good and committed teachers are
central to a good system of education in schools.
Teachers should have a greater role in the development
of syllabi and textbooks and for this, these processes
need to be decentralised. We must also attract better
quality people into the profession and for this, we must
not only improve salaries but also the working conditions
of teachers and the facilities available to them.
However, all this will come to nothing unless we
simultaneously improve teacher accountability by both
legislative processes as well as by inculcating a proper
sense of values in our teachers and our students through
our system of schooling.
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