BREAKING SILENCE OF PIN-DROP-SILENCE: RESEARCH TREND ON ACADEMIC STRESS OF PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS

Teacher education as a discipline has emerged in the last few decades. Teacher education consisted of pre-service and in-service teacher education. Pre-service teacher education being specific programmes of study comes with its own set of challenges to overcome. One of the challenges in this direction include academic stress. There have been several studies conducted on the academic stress of candidate teachers throughout the world on different dimensions and themes. The present study aims to analyse the research trend on the themes of academic stress conducted on pre-service teachers. The analysis comprised of 17 manuscripts compiled from peer reviewed and UGC CARE listed journals along with studies derived from the database of Scopus and Web of Science. The study identified eleven potential research themes of academic stress which are already conducted in the field of pre-service teacher education. Out of the eleven research themes, the researcher asserted few emerging sections like personality, intelligence, wellbeing to carry utmost significance in the contemporary time. The study concluded with providing some implications for teacher educators based on the recommendations received from the studies considered in the trend analysis.