Volume 7 : Issue 1 (2020)

Promoting Cultural Heritage Education Programmes in Pre-service Teacher Education

Teacher’s work has become more multifaceted and technical in view of the new theories of psychology, philosophy, sociology, modern media and materials. Hence, teacher is required to acquire adequate knowledge, skills, interests and attitudes towards the teaching profession. Thus necessitates the crucial role of teacher education with which teachers can be made proficient with well planned, imaginative pre-service teacher education. Apart from teaching skills, content mastery and knowledge related to pedagogical aspects; it has become necessary to develop cultural competence among the pre-service and in-service teachers. Applying cultural competence and to promote social justice in teacher education is the need of the hour. Keeping in view this utmost demand from multi-cultural comprehensive teacher education, the present conceptual paper focuses on suggestive activities, programmes and projects for promoting cultural heritage education programmes in pre-service teacher education. This would further helpful to the student teachers for better transmission of the same, successfully in the future generations.

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