Teacher and Learner

Teaching and Learning :

The relationship between teaching and learning, what and how teachers teach,and how and what learners learn has long been a subject of controversy. The traditional position starts from the assumption, taken to be so obvious as not to be open to question,that the purpose of teaching is to ensure that those taught acquire a prescribed body of knowledge and set of values.

      Both knowledge and values are taken to reflect a society's selection of what it most wants to transmit to its future citizens and requires its future workforce to be able to do.      An important characteristics of this traditional view is that it seeks to convey what is already known and ,at some level, approved. The relationship between teacher and learner is thereby. The learner is seen as the person who does not yet have whose function it is to convey them to the learner.      From the nature of this relationship,a number of things follow: the systematic transmission of knowledge and values from teacher to learner needs to proceed smoothly. That requires well-behaved learners and a disciplined environment, if necessary externally imposed with sanctions for failures in compliance.Teaching and learning also benefit from carefully designed syllabuses and prescribed curriculum content.      Furthermore, as what has to be learned can be set out in full, stage by stage, from the start of the educational process to its conclusion, it follows that what is taught can be regularly tested and that each stage of teaching and learning can best be seen as a preparation for the next.