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A Study on Iraqi Teachers’ Roles and Willingness to Accept Educational Technology

Abdullah Najim Abd Al Khanaifsawy

Volume: 13 Issue: 2 2023

Abstract:

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Educational Technology empowers teachers and learners to face and promote the change that world education is facing since the beginning of 21st century in course of its transformation from a traditional way of instruction and learning towards more innovative ways. Here teachers' roles and their attitude to adapt of Educational Technology play an important role. Majority of teachers in many 3rd world countries like India still prefer to adopt the old authoritative role of a knowledge transmitter than new roles like facilitator or delegator. But education in the present century lays a great demand for transformation of teacher roles from the traditional knowledge transmitter to the new roles. This research study focuses on the teachers’ perception to their new roles and their willingness to accept educational technology in Iraqi schools. For this purpose, a case study was launched among 175 primary and secondary teachers from various schools in West Bengal a state in India. Samples were studied on the basis of five salient teachers’ roles namely- expert, authority, personal model, facilitator and delegator- as theorized by Anthony Garsha(1990). The results exhibits that the teachers who were in favour of facilitator and delegator roles were more inclined to adopt educational technology. Simultaneously, this study also focuses on the cultural barriers prevalent in Iraqi teaching atmosphere regarding the adaptation of ET and a comparison with other developed western countries that have already made an enormous improvement on this field. This study is significant as improving the quality of education is a priority for most developing countries like India in which governments are facing numerous challenges to identify efficient ways to use their scarce resources and elderly culture to raise the quality of education in a tech-savvy environment.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.37648/ijrssh.v13i02.061

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