Building a Learning Organization: Towards Developing a More Holistic Teacher Education Institutions

Name of Author : Amlesh Kumar & Prof. B N Panda

Abstract:  The change is the only permanent thing in this world. Recent advancement in the field of teaching-learning practices forces every teacher education institutions to always keep changing and innovating. Teacher education institutions that are not capable to innovate and alter them will find themselves in trouble by facing increasingly tough competition from other institutions. The pressure caused by the constant need of innovation will force teacher education institutions to become a learning organisation. As we know learning organization is a philosophical thought given to an organization which facilitates the learning of all its members so that the organization can continuously transform itself. By building a Learning Organisation recent teaching-learning advancements can be adopted by the teacher education institutes. Through this the desired learning outcome and opportunity of institutional members to keep on learning will also enhanced. By applying the Learning Organisation structure in teacher education institutions the satisfaction of the every stakeholder will be increased. In the process of building up a learning organisation the administration, management, teachers and students have key role to play. Apart from that the transformative educational leadership is needed that is fully committed to building a learning organization towards developing more holistic teacher education institutions.

Keywords : Learning Organization, Holistic, Learning, Building, Teacher Education Institutions

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