Sustainability and Teacher Education in India: Meaning and Importance

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.

The volume discusses the role of sustainability and its principles, in terms of its environmental, social, and economic dimensions in the professional development of teachers in the education system. It explains how teacher education is essential for introducing Education for Sustainable Development in school curriculums. It also highlights the role of sustainability in education for teachers in promoting environmentally responsible citizenship. While discussing the importance of training in-service and pre-service teachers to prepare them to implement such practices, it elucidates the meaning and significance of the National Curriculum Framework and its relationship with teacher education.

This book will be of interest to teachers, students, and researchers of education, especially of teacher education, school education and education for sustainability. It will also be useful for academicians, educationalists, policymakers, teacher training institutes, and those preparing for competitive exams.

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