The Issues and Challenging Aspects Pertaining to Teacher Education at Public Sector in Pakistan: An Analysis

Abstract

Process of education begins after acquiring the skills of subject expertise and art of teaching. Teacher education plays paramount role to instill these skills. Major focus of the study was to envestigate the problems of teacher education program in Pakistan. The main objective of the study was to explore the progress of teacher educaiton program in policy perspectives and to study the problems and issues concerning to teacher education in pakistan. Quantitaitve research approch was used to gather infomratnion from the respondents. Descriptive research design was adopted to process this research. Total 360 teacher educators, 36 head of departments were randomly selected from the teacher education institutions of Pakistan. For quantiative researches questionnaire is considered the most important tool to gather infomation. So, questionnnare was used as a tool to explore the problems and issues of teacher education program in Pakistan. On the base of analays of the study, it is most of the responsdents considered that teacher education program is facing multiple challenges related to the implementation of proper policies. Study further exlpianed that teacher education is still facing lot of challenges in implemnting hte B.Ed (Hons) degree program in Pakistan and teacher educators and prospective teachers have serious conserns about the implementation and future policy of govermnet of pakistan.