ANALYTICAL STUDY OF TEACHER PREPARATION AND GENDER ISSUES REAPPRAISED

Ukpong, J.S., Bassey, E., Ekong, A., and Umar, M.

Department of Curriculum and Teaching

University of Calabar-Calabar, Nigeria.

E-Mail: ukpongette2006@yahoo.com 

Abstract: The central focus of this paper is to critically examine the aspect of teacher preparation within Teacher Education Institutions among Nigerian Universities and Colleges of Education. Thus, the scholarship highlights and discusses the  problems of quality in teacher preparation, the disenchanted position of government and other relevant agencies to supply the needed resource materials to aid equipped, competent and effective teachers to meet the expectations of Nigerians whose hope has been dashed accessioned by poor performances of students in both WAEC and NECO examinations in recent times. Profoundly, the paper identified the necessity of teacher preparation as one of the stalling machineries for National Development, hence the importance of preparing teachers to meet the global challenges becomes imperative, also penchant reflections on social dynamic of gender issues and women education in teacher education which is currently of concern to individuals, groups, and government  were considered.