Developing Quality Teacher Professionals: a Reflective Inquiry on the Practices and Challenges in Tanzania
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Date
2011
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University of Dar Es Salaam
Abstract
Quality professional development is indisputably central to building, improving and sustaining
the quality of teacher professionals. Focusing on experiences in Tanzania, this paper reflects on
the practices and challenges of developing quality professionals in a developing country. The
paper examines the trend and efforts of building and developing quality teacher professionals
across time, from the colonial epoch to the post-independence era. Considering that teachers in
whatever capacity, irrespective of their geographical location, are lifelong learners, the paper
discusses the possible challenges and/or impediments inherent in the development of quality
teacher professionals. The paper argues that developing quality education is a responsibility
developing countries must shoulder to meet the demands of the global village where teacher
professional development is indispensable and inescapable
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Quality teacher professionals, Tanzania, Teacher professional development
Citation
Anangisye, W.A., 2011. Developing Quality Teacher Professionals: a Reflective Inquiry on the Practices and Challenges in Tanzania. Papers in Education and Development, pp.137-154.