In-service education of school teachers in India: critical reflections
International Journal of Development Research
In-service education of school teachers in India: critical reflections
Received 11th September, 2017 Received in revised form; 09th October, 2017; Accepted 14th November, 2017; Published online 30th December, 2017
Copyright ©2017, Chanchal Tyagi and Pradeep Kumar Misra. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
India is one of the largest producers of trained teachers in the world, and with 1.3 million recognized schools and 7.1 million teachers it also has one of the largest pool of employed school teachers. So to maintain the quality of Indian educational system, keeping this large population of school teachers professionally up-to-date is a challenging task. This challenge becomes even more challenging considering the socio-cultural, geographical, economical and linguistic diversity of India. Considering the role and importance of in-service teacher education for professional development of teachers, it seems a fitting case to critically review and reflect about in-service education of school teachers in India that is an interesting mix of ideologies, expectations and conflicts.
