A CASE STUDY ON ROLE OF PARENTS AND TEACHERS IN THE OVERALL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF PRIMARY CHILDREN

Abstract

Education is not informing the mind i.e. filling it with information but forming it encompassing religious, moral, intellectual and aesthetic aspects. The role of teachers and parents is of paramount importance in the pedagogical process. Therefore it is important to understand the role of parents and teachers towards seven fundamental aspects related to education i.e. physical, social, emotional, moral, aesthetic, linguistic and cognitive. The study was conducted to know the present situation in this regard so that awareness among parents and teachers can be created so that children can achieve holistic growth. At the end of the study it was found that the role of teachers and role of parents are the same in physical and moral development of primary children. But the role of teachers is more important in their social, emotional, aesthetic, linguistic and cognitive development in comparison to the role of parents. In the changing scenario of modernization and globalization with nuclear families and working parents becoming the norm in urbanized areas, the teacher has to play greater and significant roles apart from the traditional one of imparting knowledge and skills.