Teacher's Role in Indian Society

Educational Implications of Philosophy in conserving

Social Harmony

By

M.VIJAYALAKSHMI

Assistant Professor

UNIT-IV

Teacher's Role in

Indian Society

4.1 Indian society in transition - Impact of globalization and privatization – educational planning in India.

4.2 Modernization of Indian Society –Professional Ethics of Teachers and Personal Development of the Teacher.

4.3 Teacher as a social worker - Teachers' role in pupils' development, community welfare, national integration and international understanding.

4.4 Sociological determinants of education -Teachers' role in strengthening integrated and cohesive forces.

4.5 Educational implications of philosophy in conserving social harmony.

UNIT-IV

Teacher's Role in Indian Society

4.5 Educational Implications of Philosophy in conserving

Social Harmony

Social Harmony

Character formation

Development of Personality

Child centered

Cultural heritage

Integrated Curriculum

Social discipline

Teacher as a Guide

Practical utility

Socialization

Liberation from life

Values

Physical Development

Mental Development

Emotional Development

Social Development

Moral Development

Functions of EducationFunctions towards Individual

Functions towardsSociety

Functions towards Nation

Education as Growth

Socialization Civic and Social Responsibility

Education as Direction

Reconstruction of Experiences

Training for Leadership

Preparation of Individual Child for responsibilities and Privileges of Adult Life

Emotional Integration

Child for responsibilities of Adult Life

National Integration

Educational Implications of

Swami Vivekananda

• Stress on the character development education

• Implies adult education and free and compulsory education

• Revived the spirit of humanism in education

• Clarion call to the educated people

• Education of women as the chief instrument of national integration

• Stressed the teaching of western learning

• Emphasised social service “Service to mankind is the highest goal of religion”. ‘Assimilation’ and ‘Tolerance’ were the key points in religion and religious education

• Ramakrishna Mission establishment

Educational Implications of TAGORE

• Established a number of educational institutions at Shantiniketan

• Founded the Visvabharati

• Great practitioner. Worked out his ideas and ideals in a constructive way

• Drew attention to the listless environment of the traditional school

• Tried to synthesise the ancient Indian ideals of education and the western arts and sciences

• Pointed out the significance of providing an environment of freedom in the school

Educational Implications of Gandhiji

• School Education to the needs of the Society

• Learning while Earning

• Important place to the Learning of Craft

• Work Experience and Socially Useful Productive Work

• Education through Mother-tongue

• Stress on Inculcating dignity of labour

• Develop elements of Spirituality in our life

Educational Implications of Sri Aurobindo’s Philosophy

• Medium of mother-tongue

• Child centred

• According to the mental aptitudes and psychological needs of the child

• Develop to the full the latent powers of the child

• Achieve the physical purification of child

• Develop consciousness

Educational Implications of

J.K.’s Philosophy

• His essay ‘The Noisy Child and Silent Mind’

• Noisy Children become silent when they do something

• Education should strive for inner peace and hence bliss

• Learning – sources like nature and psychology of human being

• EDUCATION AND DISCIPLINE

• EDUCATION AND ATTENTION

• PROCESS OF LEARNING

• FREEDOM AMD LEARNING

• LEARNING WITHOUT COMPETITION

• FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY

• INDIVIDUAL AWAKENING AND LIBERATION

Educational Implications of Dr.Radhakrishnan

• Report of the University Education Commission 1948-49

• Presided over by Dr.S.Radhakrishnan

• 12 years of schooling and degree course of three years

• University teaching to be made more attractive by improving the conditions of service

• Setting up of a Central Grants Commission

• The commission courageously tackled the problem of religious education

Educational Implications of Jainism• Development of the personality (Self)

• Knowledge is relative. By knowing the different parts one many hope to get about one, relatively

• Many sidedness of personality

• Moral aspect – Right Conduct

• The Spiritual aspect , was stressed

• Curriculum was based on the three Rathna- Right faith , Right knowledge and Right conduct

• Mother tongue was the Medium of instruction

• Text book – ‘Prakrit’ language. 14 purvas, 12 parts -angas

• Debate & discussion – Methods of instruction

• Residential living of the pupils - stressed

Educational Implications of Buddhist Philosophy

• Buddhist philosophy is positivistic and has a careful logical systematization of ideas

• It is Pragmatic. Change is the rule of the Universe

• It believes in the integration of personality by developing the various aspects of the individual which are inter linked

• It is ethical . The eightfold path to Nirvana makes a universal appeal

• It is democratic as it believed in the freedom of enquiry

• Belief in Karma

Educational Implications of Idealism

• Lofty Aims of Education

• Preservation of Cultural Heritage

• Position of the Teacher

• Self-discipline

• Emphasis on Moral Development

• Integrated Curriculum

Educational Implications of Naturalism

Psychologising the Educational Practices

Paedocentric Education

Learning by doing and learning through observation.

Guided discovery approach called Heuristic Method

Freedom in learning situations

Teachers’ Interference and dominance are marginalized

Holistic Tendency in the Curriculum offered

Advocacy of Residential Schools and Co-education

Educational Implications of Pragmatism

• Fused both psychological and sociological aspects of education

• Importance to child-centred education

• Social discipline

• Project Method

• Develop problem – solving mind

• Flexible broad based curriculum

• Teacher as a guide and companion to pupils

• Principle of Utility and Social Goodness

Educational Implications of Pragmatism

• Emphasis on Practical Utility

• Emphasis on Democratic Values

• Emphasis on Learning by Doing

• Emphasis on Education of the Whole Child

• The Project Method of Teaching

• Emphasis on Universal Education

• Pragmatism does not Banish the Teacher

Educational Implications of Realism

• Education is based on Science only

• It emphasizes on behaviour and experiment

• Child and his present life are the centres of education

• It opposes book learning

• Both the individual and the society are valued

• It is liable to change according to a change in life

Educational Implications of Existentialism

• Becoming of a human person as one who lives and makes decisions about what he will do and be

• Provide an atmosphere where the individuals develop in a healthy way, find security, encouragement and acceptance by teachers

• Any subject in school can present existential situations for teaching, and the development of human beings

• The teacher is in a position to foster individual growth

• Facilitate development or originality and creativity by providing necessary material and equipment

• The teacher is very active and welcomes challenges to his ideas from the students

• The teacher is in the foreground and is the centre of attention

• Democratic ideals should provide the school

• Mechanization and impersonality should be counteracted in school

• Concern and respect for the individual student should be the main concern of the school

Educational Implications of Humanism

• Respect for intellectuals and Literacy Scholarship

• Freedom of Expression

• Co-ordination between Humanities and Science Subjects

• Propagation of Democratic Principles

• Respect for Ancient Cultures

• Inculcation of Ethics of Humanism in the Curriculum

• Development of Thinking Power

Sources are taken from

• Slidesharenet.com

•Web sources