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01.01.2016
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Need for Professional Development and Educational Planning in a Challenging Context
Mohamed Fadhel
Vinaya Kumari
Keywords: Need for Professional Development, Need for Educational Planning
Abstract
Professional development for teachers has become a vital part of teaching and educational policymakers the world over are making it mandatory for teachers to attend professional development programs continuously in their teaching careers. These programs are time consuming and expensive. In most cases makingup lost time and arranging part-time substitutes for teachers who attend these programs turn out to be burning, unsolved issues. While a lot of debate is going on everywhere on this issue of finding time to accommodate teachers to attend seminars, workshops, faculty improvement programs and higher educational courses, in strife-torn Libya, the educational system that had been in a state of flux since 1951, owing to recurrent and turbulent political instabilities in the country and has been a gradually deteriorating, is currently in a moribund state! When there is an acute shortage of qualified teachers and extreme lack of basic facilities like books, libraries, laboratories and infrastructure, attending faculty improvement programs becomes a farfetched dream. So the authors, expatriate Indians, made a brief survey on the steps taken in the country for conducting Teacher Developments programs to improve the quality of education in Libya in general, so that they could be introduced and adopted in the University of Ajadabia, a new University established in March 2015. This survey aims to present an overall view of the situation from the perspectives of an administrator and an expatriate teacher.
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