Paper Details

The intimate link of our country’s development with the academic field sheds light on the current nature of our social structure in the post-pandemic situation. Novel Corona Virus hailing from China has immensely crossed borders creating two years of a ‘New Normal’. With the influx of new technologies, there has been sporadic improvement in human lives, but with certain costs to bear. Unfortunately, Indian society fails to magnify the mental well-being of our teachers and professors in this new normal world. The study takes into account how the pandemic leading to massive public reaction coupled with depression and fear, has totally disrupted society. It also illustrates a teacher’s situational constraints during pandemic and posits a sociological interpretation of the same. Focusing on teachers, the paper furthermore suggests ways to create a less stressful classroom environment for both the students and the teachers. Premised on secondary data, the paper not only elucidates the immense need to balance the mental health of teachers but also projects the need for socio-psychological understanding. The mental health and stress or anxiety level of teachers are of extreme importance when it comes to holistic classroom management, delivering lectures or even communicating back with students, be it in the offline or online mode of learning. Sociological interpretations portray the dire need to bring to the forefront, the prime actors in this field and the well-being of our teachers.

mental well-being, teachers, sociology, society