Browsing Department of Educational Psychology and Curriculum Studies by Subject "inclusion, prosocial education, Tanzania, teacher preparation, universities."
With the ever growing need for inclusive education, teachers’ prosocial attributes are considered important in
facilitating students’ learning. Today, universities and university colleges are among core institutions entrusted with
the responsibility of preparing teachers. While student diversity is significant in many classrooms today, little has
been written about teacher preparation in Tanzania focusing on how universities and university colleges prepare
teachers in both the academic and prosocial sides of education so that they can transmit the same to learners as they
embark on teaching. Linked to both available literature and personal experience, the need to integrate prosocial
education into teacher education programmes in universities and university colleges is emphasized in the paper, and
suggestions to this end are provided. Along with shed lighting on some anticipated challenges to producing teachers
with prosocial orientations, the paper concludes on areas that need to be researched for improved teacher preparation
in Tanzania.