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  • Teacher Educators’ Perceptions and Practices for Keeping Mental Health in This Digitized World

Teacher Educators’ Perceptions and Practices for Keeping Mental Health in This Digitized World

Authors : Muznah Faheem
Pages : 199-204
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Publication Date : 2024-05-29
Abstract :General observation of the society proofs that mental health is much more important than physical health. Mental health can be defined as an ability to think, feel, learn, and work. It also include building meaningful relationship and contribute to the world. It is more than the absence of mental disorder. (UNICEF). It is goal 3 promoting health and wellbeing is one of the 17 goals proposed as an agenda to achieve by 2030. The circumstances reveals that keeping mental health in this digitalized world is the real challenge due to diversified and technological issues. Mental health basically depend on your mental satisfaction and recognition. It creates positive solution in your body, which keeps you cooperative and competent. The purpose of the study is to explore the teacher educators’ mind sets, their understanding and strategies to keep their mental health for quality performance. It’s a qualitative study almost ten in-depth focused group interviews of fifty minutes each and multiple classroom observations are maintained in five teacher education institutions based in Karachi. Almost fifty teacher educators’ views, opinion, thoughts, feelings, emotions and experiences were the part of data. Researcher as a participant observer and interviewer add authenticity to the data collected. Thematic analysis of the data revealed that teacher educators are facing serious issues in maintaining their mental health in this digitized and challenging world. Especially the increasing involvement of artificial intelligence in teaching learning process impacts the teachers’ mental health. Teacher educators feel insecure and hesitant in the modern digitalized classrooms due to weak technological and digital skills. The situation recommended high level digital and technological training, so that they can fit their self in this fast growing environment.
Keywords : Mental Health, Teacher Educators, Digitalized World

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