Teacher Education in India, Issues and Challenges

Abstract

Teacher education is a continuous process and its pre-service and inservice components are complimentary to each other. Education is instrumental in the preparation of teachers who can in their practice ensure transformative learning,where teacher and learner, learner and learner are co constructors of knowledge. The intent of the present paper is to enhance the teacher education quality in India by focusing on the emerging issues & related concerns. Various issues of teacher education namely, institutional inertia, brand inequity, quality crisis, overgrowing establishment, rare humane and professional teachers, poor integration of skills, alienated and incompatible modes of teacher education, little contribution to higher education, domain pedagogy mismatches, identity crisis, rare innovations, stake holders' non-alignment, inadequate technology infusion, little choice base, poor research scenario, vision and vision mismatches, non-scientific manpower planning, illusive laboratories, over activism of distance open universities, invalid recognition and accreditation and no teacher education policy have been dealt on in this paper. The paper concludes that teacher education system in India that calls for revolutionary change.