Teachers in Multi-Cultural Societies: Excellence and Leadership

Tamar Ketko

Abstract


Fulfilling the most significant role in shaping their students’ personalities, teachers must also regard themselves as social and political agents by playing a significant part in their activities, in addition to their academic achievement. This paper introduces several perspectives regarding the role of the teacher in a multicultural society, one who is involved not only in academic aspects, but also in complex socio-political environments, prompted to manifest his or her qualities as a commendable figure. It will also examine the special case study of training such teachers against the backgroundof a multicultural existence with moral obligations in the State of Israel.


Keywords


Training Teachers; Political Education; Multi-cultural society;Excellence and Leadership

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