Teacher Education Landscapes in India: Governance and Quality Management

This book examines the unexplored dimensions in the teacher education sector in India. It engages with critical concerns and attempts to provide a comprehensive and holistic perspective on how governance and quality management are conceptualized, debated, developed, and implemented in the teacher education sector in India.

Pranati Panda is Professor and Head of the Department of School and Non-Formal Education of the National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA), New Delhi, India. She is also a founding architect of the National Programme on School Standards and Evaluation, a major initiative of the government of India, for institutionalisation of school quality assurance and accreditation in 1.53 million schools. Prof. Panda has more than three and half decades of experiences in premier national organisations and is a distinguished scholar in teacher and teacher education, teacher professional standards, institutional governance, regulations, standards setting, quality assurance, and accreditation and leadership. Prof. Panda managed as the focal point and editor for the Asian Network of Training and Research Institutions (ANTRIEP) in establishing international collaboration and networking with Asian countries.