Dimensions of Teacher and Student Relationships in the present Society
Introduction: Education is very much important in any country since it promotes the knowledge, skills, habits, and values. Education is concerned with the formation of each person. This is to form people of love, care, and compassion; who appreciate and will create beauty; and who have the urge and the abilities to serve others (McGettrick, B.J, 2002). Education therefore values each individual for the gifts and talents which each has, as well as providing a means of empowering each person to contribute to the benefit of all society. As we can also see it from the perspective of Swami Vivekananda, who said that “education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and runs riot there, undigested all your life. We must have life-building, man-making, character-making, assimilation of ideas. If you have assimilated five ideas and made them your life and character, you have more education than any man who has got by heart a whole library”
The learning does not solely come from the teacher. Hence the educator for the student is both the teacher and his peer group. The societal values have been diminishing over the past few decades. Therefore, it is necessary to develop the holistic citizenship education (R Rena, 2003).
Student’s Role: It is becoming increasingly apparent that socially supportive relationships can have powerful and lasting effects on the lives of children and youth (Cassidy & Shaver, 1999; Richman, Rosenfeld, & Bowen, 1998). During transitional periods and times of stress, social relationships may take on particular significance, as they can safeguard the effects of stressful life events (Eckenrode, 1991). The move from childhood into adolescence is o ...