Teacher as a Social Worker – Teacher’s Role in Pupils’ Development, Community Welfare, National Integration and International Understanding

1. Teacher's Role in
Indian Society
Teacher as a Social Worker – Teacher’s Role
in Pupils’ Development,
Community Welfare,
National Integration and International
Understanding
By
M.VIJAYALAKSHMI
Assistant Professor

2. UNIT-IV
Teacher's Role
in
Indian Society

3. 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.

4. UNIT-IV
Teacher's Role in Indian Society
Unit – 4.3
Teacher as a Social Worker –
Teacher’s Role in Pupils’ Development,
Community Welfare,
National Integration and
International Understanding

5. Role of Teachers in a Society
• Develop love for children. Deal with them
Sympathetically
• Develop sense of dedication for his
profession
• Must work whole heartedly
• Develop his own personality
• Develop a knowledge of psychology
• Should develop sociability
• Must take interest in the society he lives in

6. • Should develop his character and moral
stature
• Should have good health and develop
emotional stability
• Should cultivate light humour
• Should develop leadership habits and be a
patriot himself
• Should strive for eliminating social tensions
and conflicts

7. Teacher’s Role in Pupils’ Development
• Conservation and perpetuation of social
life
• Enrichment of culture
• All-round development of the individual
• Promotion of social efficiency
• Post-school adjustability
• Inculcation of higher values of life

8. • Socialization of the child
• All round development of the personality of
the individual
• Preparation for post-school adjustability
• Development of basic skills for acquiring
education throughout one’s life
• Development of life-skills and social
efficiency
• Providing citizenship training
• Development of moral values, civic sense and
vocational skills

9. • The teacher should help the pupil for his all
round personality development by promoting
the scientific outlook, positive attitude,
aptitude and personal philosophy of life
• The teacher should set an example for the
students. He should be able to practice what
he preaches. This will earn good respect for
his instructions on the part of the students
• The teacher should be a guide and
philosopher. He should not only criticize the
students. The teacher should suggest what is
good for the student

10. • The teacher should be prepared to
understand the needs and aspirations of
the students and act accordingly
• The teacher should be enterprising. He
should be innovative and active
• The teacher should have to follow
effective teaching methods. The
methods of teaching should be
according to the level, age and maturity
of the student

11. • He should be a bridge between the parents
and the students. His association with the
parents of pupils would help him to take care
of the pupils
• It is the important duty of the teacher to
know the strength and weakness of the
students. Having understand the background
of the pupil he should guide and counsel the
pupils
• As teachers, they should provide lot of
opportunities fore the student to cultivate
love for his country

12. • Giving training in critical thinking, dignity of
labour, participation in developmental
programmes and other social activities
• The school is the place where the students
have opportunities in having life long
education and character building
• Developing moral and social values is one of
the aims of education
• The teacher should create lot of
opportunities for the students to work with
the community

13. • Identify the children with leadership
qualities and train them to become the
best leaders in future
• Developing a feeling of National
Integration and International
Understanding
• Provide co-curricular activities like
dramatics, discussions, seminars,
outdoor games, educational tour etc, to
increase the good leadership and
followership qualities of pupils

14. Role of Teachers in promoting Community Welfare /
Role of Teachers as Social Worker
• The teacher should arrange for certain
community services by pupils, after studying the
problems faced by it
• He should train the pupils in social service
programmes like village cleanliness, health etc
• He should arrange for adult education
programmes
• He should organize campaigns against the evils
of society such as drinking, gambling, dowry
system, untouchability etc

15. • He should see that the recreational
needs of the society are met by
organizing variety shows, tournaments,
exhibitions film shows etc
• He should see that the social
programmes are adopted to the needs
of the community

16. Specific issues to be considered for
community welfare:
• How to create more favourable attitude
towards education generally
• How to reduce the distance between
desirable things in education and their
application
• How to adapt the right kind of
education to the boys and the girls
according to the conditions within each
type of community

17. Teacher should aware of the educational
potential of the community
• It has finance. It can create formal as well as
informal agencies for the purpose of
educating its members
• It has customs, practices, traditions and huge
mass of accumulated experience which is
educative
• There are group associations and
developmental programmes for the
community welfare where the teachers and
students can join

18. • The community sets the climate in which the
school functions. It determines the aims of
education and helps in designing the
curriculum as well as general organization of
the community school system
• The total educational programmes reflect the
trends, social, political, economic and
religious conditions and ideologies of the
community
• The community helps in the selection of
school personnel, and prescribes or sets
norms for effective school functioning

19. • The informal nature of education should
not be ignored by the teacher. It is
rather more important than the formal
one when the teacher’s role is viewed as
a social worker
• The teacher should be aware that unless
the community changes, the structure
of the society cannot be changed. The
ideals of industrialization and
modernization of the country would
remain in dreams

20. The teacher’s function…
• Map the community area
• Study the nature and structure of the
community
• Study the sources of formal and voluntary
agencies who can extend assistance to
community welfare
• Study the sources of community income
• Investigating the facilities available for the
community

21. • Identifying the facilities to be provided for
the community
• Study the recreational facilities
• Survey the community’s public opinion
structure and processes
• Discover community’s tension areas and
types
• Become acquainted with minority groups and
leaders
• Study the community agencies
• Understand the public relations programme

22. • Knowing the government policies and
programmes of the community development
• Plan the various people to be involved in the
programme including students and the public
• Plot the community’s probable future
development

23. National Integration
• The sentiment of nationalism
• The feeling of oneness
• Social, political, economic, emotional;
linguistic and cultural unity
• Common ideals of life and a common code of
behaviour
• The ability to subordinate sectarian and
parochial loyalties to loyalty of the nation

24. Teacher’s Role in National Integration
• The teacher has to encourage the feeling of
oneness among the students
• He should take steps to develop social unity
be celebrating festivals of different religions
• He should develop the feeling of mutual
respect, tolerance and good will
• He should never encourage casteism,
linguism and provincialism

25. • All problems facing our country should
be solved on national basis
• Inter-religious, inter-caste and inter-
provincial marriages must be
encouraged
• The teacher should take steps to
develop a national language for the
purpose of fostering national unity

26. • Language teacher should highlight the poems,
proverbs, jokes, articles and essays found in
other languages
• Encourage students to learn two or three other
Indian languages
• History teachers – highlight how racial prejudice,
communal conflicts, linguistic chauvinism and
regional bias have caused the downfall of many
an empire
• Should also discuss the salient features of the
Indian Constitution, history of Indian
independence movement, sacrifices of our
national leaders etc

27. • Geography and Economics Teacher –
should make the students realise that
no Indian State can function
independent of others
• Science Teacher – should attempt to
develop in pupils through their teaching
methods, scientific attitude and its
attributes viz. open mindedness,
objective analysis, unbiased judgement,
critical thinking and giving no room for
prejudice

28. • Physical education teacher – could
assign names of national leaders,
major rivers in India to sports teams
• Arranging educational tours to
neighbouring states or other parts
of India

29. Ways and Means
Plea for a National System of Education
Curriculum and National Integration (Re-
designing the curriculum)
• Plea for Learning Different Languages
• Re-orienting Instruction in Social Sciences
Teaching of Indian History
Study of Geography
Study of Civics

30. • Redesigning the Text-Book Material
• The importance of Art, Literature and Music
Role of Co-curricular Activities
Celebrating days and festivals of national
importance
Celebrating birth anniversaries
Celebrating festivals
Variety programmes talks by eminent men
Community living programmes

31. Participation in common tasks that involve
national or social service
Reverence for the National Flag
Reverence for the National Anthem
National Greeting
National and Patriotic Songs
Pen-Friendship Clubs
Literary Clubs
Projects for Emotional Integration

32. Face to face Contacts
• Educational Tours
• Culture Exchanges
• Teacher and Students Exchanges
Religion and Moral Education

33. International Understanding is needed…
• To ensure world peace
• To prevent world wars
• To promote human welfare
• To promote mutual understanding and
interdependence
• To strengthen faith in Democratic principles
• To maintain one’s sovereignty

34. Teacher’s Role
• Teacher’s own faith in world society
• Conditioning pupil’s mind for
international spirit
• Effective Teaching
• Encouraging International Activities
• Educating Adult Society
• His role in exchange programmes

35. Teacher’s Role in International Understanding
• Telling about the famous men and women
belonging to different nations of the world
• Cultural activities like dramatization may be
utilized for promoting understanding
• Organizing songs and dances from other
lands
• Collection of pictures and other articles
prepared in other lands
• Cultural exchange of people from one
country to another country

36. • Strengthening the U.N.O.
• Writings the books of History
• International exchange of teachers and students
• Organization of international camps
• Establishment of international university
• Improvement of curricula will poster
international understanding
• Celebration of UNO day, Human rights day,
UNICEF day, WHO day, international Labour
organization day, United Nations Educational
Scientific and Cultural organizations (UNESCO)
day
• Starting of UNESCO clubs

37. • Make the students realise the
interdependence of nations and the
common culture of the world
• Help the students to develop a
favourable attitude towards other
nations

38. Sources are taken from
•Slidesharenet.com
•Web sources

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