Dr. Ashok R.Rane,
Vice-Principal
KCES`s College of
Education,
Jalgaon.
Date 25/04/2014
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Topic : Significance of Ethics in Teacher Education in 21st
Century
Pradhapak Prabhodhini, 2013-14 at KCES`s College of Education,
Jalgaon.
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Quality
Education is a password
for total education system in the world. It is not only the knowledge, but also the capacity to utilize it
in various field of national and global development in 21st century. The quality of education depends on the ability it imparts to make proper use of the learning. In other words, acquiring
knowledge coupled with the ability for its proper application is the real education.
The teacher education plays the vital role to cultivate the various ethics
through education in India. Without the requisite
skill of application,
the knowledge is a mere treasure
trove in a sealed vault. Education includes all that which completes the personality
of an aware and cultured citizen of the nation.
Teacher education must, provide the skills
and knowledge for application and enable development of the traits, which nurture
the students future growth
and development. The ethical component of education is an element,
which caters to this need. It is in the different ethical
values of the knowledge makers that we find the cause for the difference
in their contribution.
Hon. Justice Verma says in his speech that "the
purpose of education
is to produce knowledge makers with the capacity of making the most profitable
use of the acquired knowledge. All the universities in
nation are the great storehouse of learning,
a great bureau of standards, a large workshop of knowledge,
good laboratory for teaching, learning and training. The
teacher education transforms it in true education by providing the opportunities
of values, ethos, commitment and dedication in the field of education. The Universities, the colleges and mass media
are the effective instrument of the nation
for the conservation of knowledge, for the discovery
of knowledge, for the distribution of knowledge, and above all,
for the creation of knowledge-makers.”
Former president of India Hon. Dr. A.P.J. Abdual
kalam have confidently expressed that India will be the super power in the
world up to the year 2020 in his book India 2020. The 21st century
will be the century
of knowledge; and that the intellectual capital of the world.
The gentle and learned
author explain the purpose of higher education,
that “As society becomes more and more complex,
the institutes are pressed to assume social obligations – to train for employment, to solve social problems, to help set ethical
directions for society. The purposes
of higher education are several folds. They are concerned with student growth and
development, the discovery
and refinement of knowledge,
and social impacts on the community. But all of the programmes
should be oriented to national purpose.”
Today education must fulfil the realization of the needs and
ideals of the society. Government must transform itself into
an
agency of society
from its role
as an instrument of power. National institutions must catalyze the process of social change. The ideals must become the aims of education in our socialist,
secular, republican democratic
polity.
In this context, the constitutional philosophy must be borne in mind. The objectives mentioned in the Preamble to the Constitution have to be achieved and the education system must be geared to accelerate
the social change into a welfare state assuring distributive justice envisaged in the directive
principles. The fundamental rights guarantee would be honoured only with this effort of the state coupled with performance of the fundamental duties indicates the focus on ethical
values, which form a significant part of the Indian ethos.
True education required operationalization of fundamental duties so that full human resource
development is achieved and the nation’s
richest asset will be increased.
Thus imparting ethical values as a significant constituent of education
is no longer merely persuasive but a constitutional imperative. It being essential
for development and for realization of full potential of the human person, its significance
need hardly be emphasized.
Right to Development
as an inalienable human right was recognized in the Declaration
made by the UN General
Assembly (1986) and reaffirmed in the Vienna Declaration (1993) asserting that ‘the human
person is the central subject of development’. Universal emphasis on education as the most potent tool for human development
is long recognized.
Nation is not just a conglomeration of people within a geographical boundary with self-government
but something more.
Nation building is a process
by which emotional
integration of the people is achieved. The emotional integration
can be achieved and sustained on a strong
ethical, legal and material
foundation, which can assure dignity of the individual,
equality and equal opportunity for development of all the people.
The objective of Fraternity specified in the Preamble
can be achieved
only when every citizen performs his duty to promote harmony and the spirit of common brotherhood amongst all the people of India. Only a conscious and ethical
people can preserve freedom and democracy, and free the society
from imbalance and injustice. This is the constitutional
premise. To perform
the aim of education
the teacher education must play the role to prepare each individual for this task from the
school education.
The significance of ethics as a constituent of education cannot
be overemphasized. It is necessary
not merely to achieve personal
excellence, but also to enable the nation to rise to higher levels of endeavour
and achievement through
teacher education in the 21st century.
Martin Luther King said that "we have guided missiles and misguided men. This must be changed for the
better by infusion of morality in private and public life".
“National character is the keystone on which rests the fate and future of our public affairs, and not on any ism. National character
depends on, and, in fact, is individual
rectitude. Individual honesty
must be brought into
being before we can hope for improvement of national affairs.
The great educational thinker
expressed that If the parched field of Indian
politics and administration has to get fresh, green life and grow, we need the monsoon of purity
in national character. And the monsoon consists of little drops falling and uniting to make
the rain.
To emphasise the ethical component of education
to equip the future generations to meet the growing challenges is the only effective
answer from teacher education. All teacher education and education in 21st
century must be ethics oriented to
equip the future nation builders for the performance of their task.
The real purpose of education must be able to
face the challenges and problems in nation it will confidently lead the India
as a super power in the world.
Ref:
- Justice
J.S. Verma; significance of ethics in education.
- Agrawal J.C. Teacher and Education in
Emerging India.
