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The improvement of educational system depends upon the teacher and their education. In the present educational system, Metacognitive area is more emphasized than the area of affective goals. The progressive to be achieved in refining the attitude and the institution of teacher education must be made more effective in helping teachers to develop competence. Professional education should focus on the individual capacities, he/she should have a sound philosophy of education, knowledge of adequate functioning of psychology along with a dynamic sociological perspective.

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Dr.Mrs.M.Parimala Fathima is the principal investigator-research projects-DST, ICSSR,IGNOU/DEC,Newdelhi. Her area of interest lies in COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY which is an emerging as an applied field in teacher education. She has produced eight Ph.D and published number of research papers and books with ISSN and ISBN mark respectively.

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