Contemporary Issues in Teacher Education

A Critical Analysis

Abstract

The development of the standard of education is closely associated with the question of teacher education. A teacher should arrange himself for this special task before accepting the responsibility of teaching. The teachers’ training institution helps a lot to do this task. In the education policy the importance of the teachers’ training is admitted for a long time. But in this unpredictable society how much development in the standard of education has taken place is the context of the present paper. The aim of the present paper is to highlight the historical perspective with a purpose to improve the teacher education quality in India by focusing on the emerging issues and allied concerns. The paper concludes that teacher education system in India calls for radical changes.