Published on January 2013 | Peace Education

Religious Attitude of Rural and Urban Post Graduate Students Belonging to Various Faculties of University of Kashmir(J&K) India

The main task of the teacher is to develop in children proper social attitudes, that is, a desirable attitude towards the society and the other people and to check and modify undesirable attitudes by applying suitable stimuli. The teacher can achieve these two objectives through the introduction of prestige, expert influence, major opinion, evidence of rationality etc. He should provide the pupils with proper environment and should himself behave in the line of desirable attitudes. He should be free from undesirable attitudes. If a teacher has undesirable attitudes. They are bound to he caught by the pupils. If education succeeds in the calculation of good social and moral attitudes in children, they will become strong motive forces of their behavior in later life. Attitude of the teacher has an impact on the behavior of the student in the classroom as well.The teacher spends most of the school day in the close association with his students and as result of this; his basic attitudes and actions, his tastes and mannerism have great influence on the students. The teacher creates the emotional climate in the classroom just by being friendly, calm or nervous. This directly affects the children because children learn attitudes and behaviour mostly by example. Emotional tension, for example, is contagious. A teacher who is fearful and generally hostile can induce fear, worry and insecurity in his students. Attitude is a broad term covering almost all the important fields of human knowledge. it isspecifically in the fields of education, psychology, sociology and politics. It is guided force behind all human sections.