Current trends and

issues in education
 1.paedocentric
• Child centered education
• Participatory approach
• Changes based on mathetic principle
 2.Teachers role
• Facilitator
• Role changed from dictator to a friend of
students
• No spoon feeding
• No authoritarian figure
 3.Activity centered
• Leaning by doing
• Provide knowledge and skills essential for
leading good life
• Motivate students to do experiments
 4.Creative education
• Good medium to develop original thought and
intervention
 5.More community participation
• Parent –teachers association
• Solves community problems
• More parents participation in children's
education
 6.More reliance on tecnology
• Cost effectiveness of technology based
educational program me is good than
traditional program
• Simplifies teaching leaning process
• Solves the emerging problems
• Introduces newer technology
7.Increased acceptance of non –formal
type of education
• Correspondence education
• Distance education
• Education through study centers and regional
centers
 8.Restructuring international
programmes
• Integrating and correlating various subjects
• Eg.Bsc botany
 9.Increased opportunities for highier
studies
• Educational loans for education
 10.Methods of appraisal

• Latest methods of evaluation based on a

vision of learning and well defined
performance
• More objective
11- innovation in teaching and learning
• Helps in intellectual, personal and career
development of youth
 12-educational quality assurance
• Concerned about quality ,cost effectiveness
and accountability
 13- emergence of individual as a
teaching unit
• Teachers of today realize the for presenting
learning experience to suit individual
difference existing among pupils
 14 – commercialization of education
and presence of foreign universities
• Government is withdrawn slowly from
providing higher education and allowing
private sector to play a major role
Trends and issues in
nursing education
Trends and issues in nursing education

• Curriculum changes
• Innovations in teaching and leaning
• Educational quality assurance
• More reliance on technology
• Emphasis on high – tech- high- touch
approach
 Cont…

• Preparation of global nurses

• Transnational acceptance
• Ensuring a promising career
• Emergence of new specialties
• Increased opportunities for higher studies
 Cont….
• Preferance to short term clinical programmes
than post graduate programme
• Potential shortage of nurse educators
• Diminishing government role
• Uniformity and standardization
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