Redefining the Role of Teachers

Authors :

Uday Kumar Sinha

Abstract

India has the largest education system that is holistic and transformative in nature. Such an education system must ensure the harmonious development of the learners head, hand and heart. This perspective is reflected in the National Education  Policy 2020 also. Teachers are not only teachers rather they are those engineers who could give a better shape to human being and human society as an engineer. Teachers are those philosophers who give right direction for the development of man and society in long run. They played a crucial role in nation building. Their history in context of Indian subcontinent has enough account for the vital role of teachers in the development to find individuals, his fellow beings and nation building. Human civilization is a dynamic process and it is not always smoother rather they have been stumbled upon with conflicts, clashes, fights and wars due to several unusual and created reasons. And whenever there are complexities, the teachers’ role becomes critical. It is worth to mention her that role of teachers has broader connotation in new changing scenario. In this new era where knowledge explosion is taking place and students have many novel ideas to get knowledge from offline to online mode. Technological development has played vital role in this process. However, the former guides the later experiences. Keeping various states of affairs of individual and society in mind the role of teachers are described here in the succeeding sections.

Keywords

Education, Students, Diverse roles of Teacher.

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