Teacher Education: The Incubator of Science and Technology for Development in Africa
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Teacher education is an important and exclusive programme of education. The programme deals with all issues pertaining to the teaching profession including the preparation and production of school teachers. The importance of teacher education programme lies in the latter role – preparation and production of teachers. Teachers are the basis and spur of development in society. They teach and train as well as equip individuals with the relevant competencies needed for development. Besides this role, the performance of its products (school teachers) is, directly or indirectly, the initiator and promoter of other essential aspects of education such as Science and Technology. The nature and scope of this programme facilitates the development of Science and Technology. But the combination of these two aspects of education provides a formidable inertia for the development of the society. This paper examines the role of these components of education in development in Africa. For convenience of presentation of the discussion, the paper is divided into six parts excluding introduction and conclusion. These are the purpose of teacher education programme in the society, the role of the programme in education and society, relationship between teacher education programme and Science and Technology for development in Africa, the facilitation of the relationship between the two aspects of education for development in Africa, potential challenges of the relations between teacher education programme and Science and Technology for development in Africa and, the future of these two programmes of education in development in Africa. This sort of approach of treatment successfully brings out the gist of the term – “Teacher education” as the incubator of Science and Technology for development in Africa.
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