Article Title :
Attitude of Teacher trainees towards ICT and Willingness to Adopt ICT in Pedagogy

Author Name :
Bandana Kumari and Jessie S. Modi (George)

Keyword :
Teacher trainee, Attitude, ICT

Publisher :
Politic India Publication

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Abstract :
Teacher education program plays a critical role to provide leadership in adopting preservice as well as inservice teacher education to fulfill the current demands of economy and society. To enhance teaching-learning there is a need to model the new pedagogies and tools of learning. Moreover, the teacher-training program should guide to determine how to use new technologies effectively in the context of needs, economic conditions, and culture of the society. In this paper, the investigator tried to measure the attitude of teacher trainees towards ICT and based on the result tried to interpret that they might be willing to adopt ICT in pedagogy. A sample of 300 teacher trainees from the Patna district has been selected randomly to explore the findings using an attitude scale. The result of the study indicates that most of the teacher-trainees possessed a favorable attitude towards ICT, hence they might be willing to adopt ICT in pedagogy.