The Role and position of cultural edcation in teacher Education system

Culturalization and socialization are the most important functions of educational institution. Because they are the most important mechanisms for identity formation. Also, identity formation is one of the main aims of education. In the other side teacher is one of the most important and effective component in the process of education. Teacher has the key role in the culturalization, socialization and identity formation of students. Therefore, the success of educational institution depends on cultural education, clearly, if we want to achieve these aims, so the teachers should be prepared properly. According to this introduction the main aim of this study is to inquiry and explain the role and position of culture and cultural education in teacher education. The questions are: 1) what are the most important aims in cultural education domain for organization of teacher education? 2) What are the most important prerequisites of these aims? 3) with which methods can we achieve these aims? The method of this study is reflective analysis.
The results of this study show that the main aims in cultural education domain for teacher education include of 1) Respect and transfer the cultural heritage to the students who should be teachers in future. 2) The evaluation and criticism of culture and cultural heritage. 3) Cultural modification and reconstruction.
The most prerequisites are the attitude change toward the teacher education and also, the definition of teacher education should be revised based on the priority of culture and cultural education. Totally, this paper suggests that fufther the Shulman,s categories of teacher knowledge, we should consider another category its name is a knowledge and perception of culture.