Quality Concerns in Teacher Education
Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Constructivist pedagogy: an overview/Alok Gardia. 2. A reflection of quality of teacher education in nursery teaching/Seema Singh, Upasana Ray and Paromita Chaubey. 3. Teacher education: a peep into colonial history/Madhu Kushwaha. 4. The national council for teacher education and Governance of teacher education in India/Sunil Kumar Singh. 5. Present status and future perspectives for special educators of hearing impairment/Raghavendra N. Sharma. 6. Quality issues and innovative teacher education programmes for capacity building under SSA in Jammu and Kashmir/Kavita Suri. 7. Preparing teachers for changing school context/Shubhra Srivastava. 8. Secondary teacher education in India: challenges and prospects/Shweta Shandilya. 9. Selection process of teacher educators: a critique/Sashapra Chakrawarty and Sanjay. 10. Awareness of prospective teachers towards child rights and evaluation of NCFTE 2010 in context of child rights/Kavita Singh. 11. Quality concern and issues in early childhood teacher training courses/Vandana. 12. Role of IQAC in maintaining quality in teachers training college/Archana Srivastava. 13. Teacher effectiveness as related to activity passivity trait/Himani Anand and Shailendra Pratap. 14. Teacher education in India: history and present challenges/Shubhra Mishra. 15. Need of innovations in teacher education for sustaining quality in ICT age/G.C. Bhattacharya. 16. Teacher education: its past, present and future with special reference to India/Bhaskar Chaudhary. 17. An overview to teacher education in India with reference to special education/Shruti Pandey and Kavita Singh. 18. Pedagogical aspects of value education at secondary level/Kaushlendra Singh. 19. Sustaining quality in teacher education in India: a challenging issue/Amit Kumar Verma. 20. ICT: Newer methods of imparting education/Sunita Singh. 21. Pedagogical content knowledge: a perspective of quality teaching/Meenakshi Singh and Shabina Ansari. 22. Multiple intelligence and teacher education/Tahira Tarannum. 23. Delving into some issues in teacher education/Sridipa Sinha. 24. Teacher education in India: issues and concerns/Kusum Lata Patel, Ravi Kumar and Pallavi Gupta. 25. Quality issues in elementary education/Chandra Rani. 26. Challenges of Indian teacher education/Akhil Kumar, Parath Prasad and Meenakshi Meena. 27. Innovative teacher education programme: need problems and suggestions/Gunjan Dubey, Akshay Kumar and Bharti Varshney. 28. Quality issues in teacher education in India/Reena Kumari. 29. Seven competencies for a better teacher educator/Nitin Jain. 30. ICT in teacher education: challenges and possible enablers/Vivek Singh and Nusrat Fatma. 31. We prepare the future nation builders/Shubhra Ojha and Tulika. 32. Quality management in teacher education: challenges and solutions/Lalita Prasad.
Education of teachers not only facilitates improvement of school education by preparing competent committed and professionally well qualified teachers who can meet the demand of the system but also functions as a bridge between schooling and higher education. India possesses one of the largest systems of teacher education which has come under considerable pressure as a result of the expansion and growth of school education through efforts like Universalization of elementary education. After implementation of right to education RTE act the crises of competent teachers has increased manifold.
The authors of this book have dealt various issues challenges regarding training of teachers and also suggested innovative methods and technologies to make it effective. This book will be vary useful for those who are interested in knowing role of ICT for improvement of teacher education program and also the innovative pedagogic approaches and new trends in field of education. It also includes and critically analyses the process of preparation of teachers of children with special needs in India and answers many questions pertaining to teacher education in India. In this book all the chapters are contributed by the respective authors and we acknowledge their contributions. (jacket)
