Teacher Education in 21st Century: Challenges in India: A Study

Abstract

Education is a process which helps to empower individual's abilities and behavior. Quality of any country’s citizen depends upon the quality of their education and quality of education is related to the quality of their teachers. In any educational program, teacher is the most important component who is mainly accountable for carrying out the educational process at any level. In 21st century education, teaching learning process changes rapidly. Technology, digital gadgets, apps etc. have taken important place in our education system which requires teachers to perform various roles in 21st century beyond the role of facilitator for the learning of knowledge. This shows that it is necessary to invest in the preparation of teachers. This paper aims to discuss the issues or challenges of teacher education in the period of globalization and digital technology such as inadequacy of technological infusion in teacher education, rarity of innovations, mismatches between demand and supply, lack of resources materials etc.