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1. Growing Demands on the Contemporary Teacher
All eyes seem to be turning on education. The contemporary civilization is
science-based, and during the recent times, there has been an increasing growth
of democracy. There is also today an unprecedented explosion of information and
unprecedented speed of communication. As a result, increasing masses of the
human race are getting seized by the need to grow in awareness and knowledge and
to determine their future by conscious and deliberate participation in the
process of development. The goal of education for all has gained universal
acceptance. In every discipline educational activ
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3. The Role of the Contemporary Teacher
It will now be clear that the role of the contemporary teacher
has essentially to do with something which is exceptionally
subtle and complex. The role of the teacher has always
been basically psychological in character, but the
dimensions that come to the view of the contemporary
teacher are much more difficult to deal with. It may be said
that the role of the teacher is not merely to promote the
quest of the knowledge of man and the universe, and the
sciences and arts of their inter-relationships. It is not also
merely to build the bridges between the past and the future.
These tasks are indeed important
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Acknowledgements
Some of the illustrations, photographs and pictures which appeared in this book were used
as a part of Exhibition sponsored by the Ministry of Education and Culture, Government
of India, and organised by the Indian Council of Philosophical Research, in November, 1984.
Several other illustrations, and pictures have been prepared by Shri Niren Sengupta, who
has also prepared the design and layout of this book.
We have received invaluable help from Shri Bhuddhadev Bhattacharya, who has also
helped Shri Nire
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5. A Model Framework of Teaching-Learning for the Contemporary Teacher
There is a conceivable and realizable model framework of
education, at once flexible and stable, which would meet
the varied needs that are imperatively demanded by the
contemporary needs.
If we want education for peace and education for
development; if we want our students to have not only
intellectual development but an integral development of
personality; if we want to underline the value of physical
education and manual labour as also that of the moral and
spiritual austerity and discipline; and if we want each
student to discover his own inner law of development and
real vocation of li
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Let Us Not Forget the Essentials
There are four essentials that we must not forget while
restructuring or reforming the educational system. Firstly,
we must recognise that the child and its latent
potentialities and its quiet yet perseverant soul are to be
subserved; we must not build a system that would
suffocate or smother that little child—that little prince.
This essential point is brought out forcefully by Rabindra
Nath Tagore in his short story "The Parrot's Training". It is
so instructive that we may recount it in full.
"Once upon a time there was a bird. It was ignorant. It
sang all right, but never recited scriptures. It hopped
prett
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2. Educational Objectives and the Contemporary Teacher
In order to understand the meaning and significance of the role that the contemporary teacher is called upon to
play, we need to clarify to ourselves the fundamentals of
education as also the perennial and emerging objectives
of education.
There are three fundamental ideas underlying the
educational process. There is, first, the pursuit of man to
. know himself and the universe and to relate himself with
the universe as effectively as possible. This pursuit
constitutes the very theme of human culture, and
education deri
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4. The Contemporary Teacher and Dynamic Methods of Teaching-Learning
The contemporary teacher will not be in a position to fulfil
his role adequately unless educational methodology and
contents of education begin to improve. And the more
these improve, the subtler will become our demands on
the teacher. The use of technologies might in due course
reduce in certain respects some burden of routine
instructional work. But it will open up the possibilities of
individualized learning-teaching processes. The teacher
will begin to be judged not only by the substance of what
he will communicate and his power of stimulation, but
also by what he is in his inner self, particu
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