State the relevance of Comparative Education in Teacher Preparation.

- Provides the teacher in a comprehensive way, the skill of gathering educational information about different countries since students have to collect information about different national systems of education to be studied before analysing them. Accordingly, the teacher is better fitted to study and understand their own educational system from the knowledge of what exists in other countries.
- Helping the teacher to break down pedagogical parochialism or ethnocentrism by promoting the development of sympathetic understanding of the educational thoughts, achievements and problems of foreign countries.
- Helping the teacher to have an objective attitude towards educational issues as such attitude is usually based on verifiable facts and figures.
- Providing the needed reliable information to understand the conditions under which educational programs and systems operate and how they vary and know which one to adapt.
- Helping the teacher to secure information which will be useful in improving educational ideas, contents, methods and organization among the various educational systems of the world.
- Providing the teacher with the theoretical and practical framework towards understanding one’s own
educational system, particularly what the educational institutions and processes are and what they are not.
- Enabling the teachers to identify educational problems, challenges, weaknesses, achievements and strengths in other systems which will help them anticipate similar weaknesses while planning theirs.
-Helping the teacher to develop the talent for constructive leadership from knowledge of what exist in other countries.
- Helping to develop an attitude of not considering any educational system as unique because its knowledge will provide information that what is available to a country is not totally new as such has been in practice in other countries and that other systems have solutions to problems they have been unable to discover.
- Helping the teacher to formulate realistic ideals of education and reduce growing criticisms about the existing system.
- Helping the teachers to speculate about the future of education for their countries and make reasonable
recommendations on how to correct present errors or improve on the present achievements for the future,
thereby moving the world educational system forward.
- Enabling the teacher to understand the procedure and forces that make for educational change- economic,
social, political, religious, cultural, and so on.
- Helping to promote better international understanding as studies on many educational systems will facilitate a better insight and also a better knowledge of these people. This is of great value now that the world is getting smaller and closer physically and culturally as a result of technological development in mobility and communication. It is for this reason that Comparative Education is sometimes referred to as International Study of Education. According to Abe (1987), a group of scholars have devoted their careers exclusively to the promotion of this field of studies; and above all.
- It is relevant for intellectual and professional reasons. Any school teacher/educator worth his/her salt should be aware of the various means and methods of socializing the child in many societies of the world in order to appreciate the many varieties in achieving the same objectives.

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Titany answered the question on August 10, 2021 at 08:47