出版社：Mediterranean Center of Social and Educational Research (MCSER)
摘要：Professional development for teachers is an essential element of plans to improve the quality of education. Professional development in a broader sense refers to the development of a person in his or her professional role. More specifically, professional development of teachers refers to the achievement of enhanced learning experience in research and teaching with synchronized system so that he/she could deliver effectual knowledge to his /her students in particular and to the society as a whole. Exploring this imperative aspect of teaching human resource in universities, current study analyzes the initiatives taken by public universities of Pakistan for professional development of their teachers. The aim of this explanatory study is to investigate the issues and challenges regarding professional development mechanisms of public universities of Pakistan. It elaborates their performance development procedures and strategies and unearths the influential factors and challenges which are faced by these university teachers regarding performance development systems. The sample of the said study comprised of randomly selected teaching staff of five major Public Universities of Pakistan. Along with detail questionnaires, in depth interviews had been conducted with teaching staff of the sample universities in order to achieve the deeper insights of the challenges and issues regarding teachers’ professional development. The study reveals that foreign scholarships to university teachers, research grants and training programs are various effectual measures taken by Higher Education Commission of Pakistan for Public universities. However, comprehensive monitoring system, quality assurance and impact measurement of the said measures are lacking elements which create dissatisfaction among teachers in public universities of Pakistan. Also, lack of training for improved teaching in semester system, communication gap among seniors and junior faculty, decreased guidance for modernized research conduction, overburdened teaching load are some of the hindering factors in professional development of teachers which are been revealed by the current research.
关键词：Professional Development; Higher Education; Training Mechanisms
