TEACHER EDUCATION: VARIOUS PARAMETERS AND EFFECTIVE TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT(TQM)
Author(s):
DIVAKARA NAIK K S
Keywords:
Teacher Education, Total Quality Management.
Abstract
Education in general and teacher education particularly, is deliberate enterprise aiming to provide good quality service to its customers in order to enable them to contribute significantly for development of the nation. This quality service is essential in the modern context of globalization. Quality in teacher education is the area of focal interest of the present study. Conceptual framework of quality has been discussed in details. Various quality parameters in the field of teacher education have been identified and few major among them have been explained elaborately. The study has also discussed the important role of quality management in teacher education, which is a program to integrate all these quality components to ensure accountability, commitment and credibility of the institution enabling it to render a customer friendly service. Quality has been defined as the fitness of product or service for its intended use and quality control conveys an idea about determining and maintaining that quality of product or service. Good buildings with well-furnished well-maintained classrooms, well-equipped laboratories, and a good library with ample facilities for students, well-qualified and committed faculty and an environment, which facilitates the prevalence of an effective’s teaching- learning process are important sources of quality. National development is possible only through education. The education should be qualitative and hence Total Quality Management in education is needed urgently. When we accept TQM in education, a quality in the teacher education institutions.
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Unique Paper ID: 145285
Publication Volume & Issue: Volume 4, Issue 8
Page(s): 313 - 318
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