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Unit 23 : Teacher Education: Concept and Importance

(g) shows interests in the development of the child indicated by : Notes
(i) intrinsic and extrinsic readings pertaining to adolescent growth problems and
needs.
(ii) organization of socio-cultural functions and excursion terms.
(iii) conference with the adolescent.

23.9 Objectives at Collegiate Stage

The following are the basis for the objectives:
1. Learner at college stage is at the transitional adulthood stage.
2. The learner is ready to lead an independent life by vocational and social adjustment.
3. Aptitudes are by and large hardest and stable, habits are enduring and style of work and
personality undergo very little change.
4. Learner is able to acquire more abstract concept, able to reason able to propound his own
theory and able to test it under conducive learning conditions.
Objectives : The main objectives are as follows:
(1) The future teacher for collegiate stage should possess competency to teach the subjects of
his specialization on the basis of accepted principles of teaching and learning also by
striving to keep himself abreast with the latest knowledge in the subject of his specialization
and methodology of teaching.
(2) Develops understanding of the aims and objectives of education in general and of higher
education in particular and is also aware of his role in building up a democratic, secular
and socialistic society in Indian context.
Terminal Behaviours
The following are the terminal behaviours:
(a) understand the various philosophical, sociological, psychological interpretation of concept
of education.
(b) discrimination between aims and objectives of education.
(c) recalls the objectives of education in general and those of higher education.
(d) discriminates between general and specific objective of higher education

Self Assessment
2. State whether the following statements are ‘True’ or ‘False’:
(i) Teacher who will be educated in the pre-primary teacher institution will generally teach
children between 3 to 8 years of age.
(ii) Freud believed that foundations of personality of on individual are made in the first
five years of his age.
(iii) The learner at the secondary stage has a batter developed cognitive, psychomotor and
affective oblations.
(iv) Teacher education does not possess the cortical and practical knowledge in respect of
childhood education including integrated teacher.

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