Sustainability and Teacher Education in India

This book provides an understanding of the importance of embedding and integrating the concept of sustainability into teacher education in India. It focuses on training teachers and educators towards achieving the principles of education for sustainability.

Autorentext

Gursharan Singh Kainth is the Founder and Director General of Amritsar based Guru Arjan Dev Institute of Development Studies, and recipient of various national and international accolades. He is rightly acclaimed as a thinker and a scholar and is well known for his diligence and academic approach to work as well as his unassuming demeanour. An unwearied researcher and a specialist in Quantitative Techniques and Development Economics, has contributed numerous papers in national and international journals and authored /co-authored/Edited more than 35 books and research monographs which has been highly acclaimed during his three and a half decades of professional career.

Inhalt

1. Sustainability: Conceptual Framework 2. Teacher Education in India: Historical Development 3. In-Service Training Program 4. National Curriculum Framework and Teacher Education 5. Summary and Concluding Remarks Bibliography