Why should a prospective teacher study history of Education?

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1.History of education teaches us about the past educational activities ie practices, challenges and solutions. Therefore history of education teaches us about our past educational activities so that we can focus on educational activities of the present in order that we may modify those activities of education for the future generation in the light of the existing conditions.

2.To professionally prepare teachers that they can be able to critically explore alternative theories and practices of educational evaluation, acceptance, rejection and modification of cultural inheritance. In this way the history of education can help expand the possibilities for personal and professional action.

3.It contributes to the strengthening of both the personal and the professional competence of the teacher.ie in the following ways;
i. To investigate, examine, evaluate, accept reject or even modify one`s cultural inheritance. One will have a chance to agree or disagree or modify their cultural heritage.

ii. To become educational critic and agent who is and can be responsible for cultural transmission and change, rather than a person who blindly accepts the status quo or who simply accepts unchallenged claims.

4.We study the motivations and behaviors of other human beings that were engaged in similar activities in the past. In this way, a teacher is directly encouraged to endeavor to discern the various choices which were instrumental in shaping human purposes in the past thus bring the possibilities and alternatives in present decision making.

5.Through critical examination of the educational activities in the past, the teacher can be able to illuminate on the possibilities and alternatives for the decision making in the present and thus help modify the future.

6.Encourages freedom of critical thought and imaginative thinking in the exercise of educating.

7.Helps one develop personal view on education eg what aims, methods, and existing institution.

8.Through comparative studies we are able to evaluate past successes and failures thereby identifying there worth.

Titany answered the question on August 30, 2021 at 06:07

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