Tulsi Prajna 1993 01

SR No.: 524573
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Parmeshwar Solanki
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 1993
Total Pages: 156
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 9 MB

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TU L SĨ PRAJ NA
Self-understanding and Work-ethics
A.N. Pandeya
1.
Introduction : The Problem
(1.1) We propose to discuss the two issues of self-understanding and workethics', in their mutual relashionship, for teachers working in our schools, as well as thier trainers.
We must, first locate these issues in the real context and situation, within which our school-teachers and their trainers have to function. There are three inter-locking areas that define this context and situation (1) The first, and perhaps the most important, is the organised schools that are the primary institutions of our education system It is common knowledge that our schools as the primary institutions of our educational system have to work under double pressure. First, high expectations from them on the part of students, their parents, the employing organisations, and finally our society and government - which are the primary funding agency. The second pressure is much more acute, since it is widely experienced by the teachers themselves as a serious obstacle to their effective performance as good teachers. I am referring to inadequacy of resources and facilities of essential and basic kind - which cripples all their aspirations and efforts to be a good teacher and to achieve excellence in their job and career. (2) The second area which impinges on the context and situation of our teachers and trainers, is the social world outside the educational institutions - namely, the family, the community and the wider sphere of economic organizations and political institutions. Sociologists describe this wide and complex area as the
social system'. (3) The third area, which defines the general spirit and awareness of our contact and situation, is the most difficult to present and grasp concretely, yet is the most vital of the three. It is the area usually described as the field of 'culture' -- an area in which we cultivate our sensibility and taste; our imagination and dreams; our inner landscape of private and personal consciousness, will and spirit; our enduring interests and ideals; our organised and methodical effort to assimilate and advance the intellectual and thinking heritage available to each one of us in the mainstreams of science, philosophy and religious/spiritual visions and perspectives; our spiring to realize our creative potentialities through purposive, persistent and satisfying action, practice and reflection, our search for those deep
January-March 1993