Enhancing Social Development through Educating Nonformal School Teachers1 Enhancing Social Development through Educating Non-formal School Teachers Authors Ridwanul Mosrur Graduate Student Seoul National University, South Korea email: ridwanul.mosrur@gmail.com And Rayhan Ara Zaman Assistant Professor Institute of Education and Research University of RajshahiRajshahi, Bangladesh Phone: +8801729326913 email: shilu2003@gmail.com / raz@ru.ac.bd Fax: +88-0721-750064 Enhancing Social Development through Educating Nonformal School Teachers Abstract Social development is significantly important to bring sustainable changes within the society, for what, the role of nonformal education is crucial. The teachers of nonformal schools are not only to provide enhanced literacy but also to act as an agent towards expected social changes. Thus the capacity development programs for the nonformal teachers requires to be strategic which in what extent are being practiced in Bangladesh, is investigated in this study. The nonformal schools operations are planned and implemented as per ad-hoc basis through project or program approaches, and so on the professional development programs. Thus this study recommends an integrated approach across the country to ensure the validation of it’s true purposes. Keywords Teacher Education, Nonformal Education, Teachers’ Professional Development, Social Development 1. Introduction Bangladesh is a developing country which struggling to carry itself towards middle-income country. It has a massive population which is often considered as the burden that slowing down the country towards development. But, in very fewer cases it is considered that this massive population can be transformed into some massive asset through proper education. In the last few decades Bangladesh was struggling to ensure basic education as per the agenda of Millennium development Goals (MDGs) and other international collaborative declarations. During that period, a huge number of people wereilliterate; millions of the children were out of the schools which put the country into a big nightmare. There the concept of nonformal education was introduced to provide literacy to the out-school children and the