Index

Building Teacher Quality in India: Examining Policy Frameworks and Implementation Outcomes

ISBN: 978-1-80071-904-0, eISBN: 978-1-80071-903-3

ISSN: 1479-3679

Publication date: 4 August 2021

This content is currently only available as a PDF

Citation

(2021), "Index", Wiseman, A.W. and Kumar, P. (Ed.) Building Teacher Quality in India: Examining Policy Frameworks and Implementation Outcomes (International Perspectives on Education and Society, Vol. 41), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 287-297. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-367920210000041013

Publisher

:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Copyright © 2021 Alexander W. Wiseman and Preeti Kumar


INDEX

Note: Page numbers followed by “n” indicate notes.

Aam Aadmi Party government (AAP government)
, 11, 160–162, 170

context
, 171–172

Academic freedom
, 177, 193, 202, 207

Academic Resource Team (ART)
, 175

Accessibility
, 85, 104, 109, 110, 118

Accountability model
, 173, 178–180

Adhyayan Quality Standard (AQS)
, 244

Advancement of Educational Performance through Teacher Support (ADEPTS)
, 26

Affective education
, 274

Affordances
, 236

African sub-continent, initiatives in
, 35

After Quality period (AQ period)
, 35–36

Aided school
, 36, 152, 200

American Curriculum
, 198

Anganwadies
, 106, 108, 110–111, 117, 120

centres
, 110, 113

workers
, 107, 111–113, 117, 120

Antithesis, teacher appraisal as
, 26–27

Appraisal
, 32, 34

Autonomy
, 27–28, 51, 96, 130, 132, 179, 182, 193, 202, 207

Bachelor of Arts (B. A.)
, 203

Bachelor of Education (B. Ed.)
, 65–66, 190, 202–203

Bachelor of Science (B. Sc.)
, 203

Bachelor’s in Elementary Education (BElEd)
, 66, 207

Bakhtin
, 220

Bandura
, 219

Baseline teaching performance
, 254–255

Before Quality period (BQ period)
, 35–36

Block Resource Centres (BRCs)
, 23, 120

Cadre, 147n17

Canadian Ministry of Education (MoE)
, 31–32

Career management
, 20

Center for Early Childhood Education and Development (CECED)
, 111–112

Center for Sustainable Development (CSD)
, 271

Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE)
, 115

Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE)
, 5, 37, 200

Centralised Admission Cell (CAC)
, 139

Chattopadhyay Commission
, 168

Chiasmus, 221–227, 239n3

Child Development Project Officers (CDPOs)
, 114

China
, 196

Claims
, 54

Classroom Act
, 31

Cluster Resource Centre (CRC)
, 23, 117

Coleman Report
, 3

Colleges of Education
, 192, 194, 195, 202

Colleges of Teacher Education (CTEs)
, 6

Commissioner of Public Instruction (CPI)
, 138

Common Entrance Test (CET)
, 139, 152

Community education
, 56

Comparative analysis
, 20–21, 38, 192, 206, 208

Comparative approach
, 195–196

Comparative education research
, 191–192, 195–196, 198–199

Comparative reflections
, 192

Comparative study
, 10, 11, 191, 195, 196, 274–275

Constructivism
, 11, 55–56, 104, 245

Contextualized teaching and learning (CTL)
, 273–274

Continuing professional development (CPD)
, 48, 67

Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE)
, 53

Continuous improvement
, 245, 246

of teaching
, 265–266

Continuous Professional Development (CPD)
, 4, 20–21

Contract teachers
, 52

Contractualization
, 167–168

Core Academic Unit (CAU)
, 175–176

Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO)
, 246

Counseling, 136, 140–141, 147n15
, 154–156

Cultural capital
, 49, 50–51

Culture
, 49

Curriculum
, 5, 7, 27, 33, 37, 68, 95, 112, 181, 244

Curriculum delivery
, 250, 251, 254–255, 257–258

Curriculum Framework for Quality Teacher Education (CFQTE)
, 73

Curriculum frameworks
, 73–74

Decentralization efforts
, 174–176

Decentralized teacher evaluation in Canada
, 31

DEEKSHA
, 119

Delhi
, 4, 11, 109, 119, 159–184

government schools
, 160, 169, 171, 179

school education system
, 162

Department of Education (DoE)
, 5, 30–31, 160, 176, 193–194

Deployment
, 132–133

Deregulation
, 161

Development Appraisal System policy (DAS policy)
, 35

Diagnostic tool (DT)
, 248, 254

Dialogic modeling
, 216, 229

data
, 222–227

methods of analysis
, 221–222

phenomenon of study
, 219–220

setting
, 219

symmetrical chiastic structures across data corpus
, 228–229

symmetrical structure
, 219–229

Dialogism
, 220

DIKSHA (online teaching)
, 48

Diplomas in Elementary Education (DELEd)
, 66

District Ethics Committee
, 25

District Institutes of Education and Training (DIETs)
, 6, 66–67, 98, 109, 132

for preschool teacher training
, 119–120

District Primary Education Programme (DPEP), 68, 107, 133–135, 145n4
, 167

Diversity of teacher education system
, 65–66

Document analysis
, 21–22

Documentary approach
, 196–197

Draft National Education Policy (DNEP)
, 8, 20, 23, 244, 246

Dutch educational system
, 32

e-pathshala
, 119

e-Vidhya
, 119

ECCE council functional
, 121

Écoles normales
, 192

Education (School Teachers’ Appraisal) (England) Regulations 2012
, 30–31

Education Commission
, 6

Education for All (EFA)
, 7, 105, 129, 169

Education policy
, 3, 9–10, 83, 85, 197, 200

education policy-makers
, 6

in India
, 9

Education(al)
, 5, 65, 164–168

governance
, 167

in India
, 82

institutions
, 50

policies
, 71–73

quality
, 2

reforms
, 3, 160–161

Educator
, 277–278

Eighth All India School Education Survey (8th AISES)
, 109

Elementary school teacher
, 154

Empirical approach
, 197–199

Employment Exchange
, 139

Equitable education
, 83, 86, 88, 96

Equitable quality
, 104

États Généraux Sur L’éducation
, 31

Ethics Committee
, 24–25

Exclusive Schools in Delhi: Their Land and Law
, 169

Executive Order
, 134, 136, 141

Experiencing
, 229–231

Extrinsic motivation
, 130

Facilitator
, 270, 272, 275–276

Faculty of education
, 201

Federal education policies
, 3–4

Feedback from teachers and school leaders
, 258–261

Female youth
, 90, 137

Fifth Pay Commission
, 21

Formal education
, 274, 276

France
, 192–193

Friedrich Wilhelm August Frobel
, 104

Gandhi Ji
, 106

Gender
, 272

General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS)
, 36

General Teaching Council (GTC)
, 39

Gijubhai Badheka
, 106, 107

Government of India (GoI)
, 68

Plan of Action
, 47

Government of Karnataka, 138, 139, 143, 146n12

Government schools
, 84

Govt. of Andhra Pradesh
, 136

Guozijian
, 192

Herzberg’s two factor theory
, 130

High, Objective, Uniform State Standard of Evaluation (HOUSSE)
, 30

High teacher–children ratio
, 114

Higher education, 10, 65–66, 72, 78, 128, 132, 192 (see also University-based teacher education)

Higher education institutions (HEIs)
, 190

Hiroshima Prefectural Board of Education
, 34

Hong Kong
, 11, 34, 37, 191, 196, 199, 201, 204, 206–208

contemporary PSTE for secondary school teachers in
, 201–203

educational background
, 200

empirical data collection in
, 197–198

historical, political, socio-economic background of
, 199–200

SUP scheme in
, 204

teacher education background
, 200–201

Hong Kong Diploma in Secondary Education (HKDSE)
, 198

Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR)
, 199

Humanistic education approach
, 272

data sources or evidence
, 275–276

humanistic approach
, 273

literature review
, 272–274

pedagogical and curricular framework
, 272

Humanistic psychology
, 273

Imagination
, 236

“Improving School Education”
, 164, 173

In-service orientation
, 113

In-service teacher education programs
, 56, 201

Inattentive teaching
, 217

Incheon Declaration
, 131

Inclusive
, 79, 130, 133, 137, 139

Inclusiveness
, 139, 140, 142, 145

India
, 4–5

CBSE in
, 37

education in
, 82

education policy in
, 9

neoliberalism, education and
, 164–168

preschool education in
, 106

private schools in
, 5

public schools in
, 5

reforms in pre-service teacher education in
, 67–69

synthesizing and analyzing teacher quality in
, 10–11

teacher appraisal policies in
, 21–22

teacher education in
, 195–196

teacher evaluation in
, 21

work of teacher educators in
, 65–67

India Report–Digital Education
, 48

Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE)
, 5, 38, 200

Indian education system

shifts in
, 167

and teacher preparation
, 4–5

Indian preschool system
, 105

Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU)
, 109

Individual attributes
, 129

Individual self-worth
, 273

Inferior education
, 84

Informal education
, 269

Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
, 6, 119, 270

application of education framework to ICT center model curriculum
, 273–274

center model
, 271–272

data analysis and point of view
, 276–285

methods, techniques, & modes of inquiry
, 274–275

skills
, 47–48

weightage to
, 119

Infrastructure
, 51, 66, 75, 84–85, 104, 108–109, 119–120, 135, 160

Infrastructure for Sustainable Development (i4SD)
, 271

Inquiry method and techniques
, 196

documentary approach
, 196–197

empirical approach
, 197–199

limitations
, 199

Institutes of Advanced Studies in Education (IASEs)
, 6

Institutional measures
, 129

Instructional Competence for Engaging Students
, 250–251, 254–258, 261

Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS)
, 107–112, 119–120

Integrated programs in Sciences/Arts and Education
, 66

Integrated Shala Darpan
, 135

Integrated teacher appraisal
, 32

Inter TEIs linkages
, 203

Inter-institutional linkages
, 203–206

International Baccalaureate (IB)
, 5, 198

International General Certificate in Secondary Education (IGCSE)
, 198

International school
, 198, 200, 204, 206, 208

Internships
, 67, 82, 203–204

Interpersonal development
, 271

Interviews, 147n20
, 163–164, 197–198, 276, 284

Intrinsic motivation
, 130

Justice Verma Commission
, 22–23, 48, 68, 201

Kanagawa Prefectural Board of Education
, 33–34

Karnataka
, 36, 111, 129, 134–137

teacher policies in
, 137

teacher recruitment and placement in
, 137–140, 152–154

teacher transfers in
, 140–141, 154–156

Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS)
, 22–23

Kindergartens
, 106

Knowledge construction
, 74

Kothari Commission
, 44, 46, 168

Learning
, 5–6, 11, 27, 74

Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky
, 104

Liberalization
, 161

Linguistic barriers
, 84

Literary theory
, 216, 220

Maharashtra
, 5, 28, 170, 199–200

Manpower
, 34, 114, 117–118

Maria Montessori
, 104, 106

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
, 130

Master’s in Education (MEd)
, 65

Matrix of cause and effect patterns
, 54

Mehrotra Committee
, 22

Mental models
, 236

Mentor teacher (MT)
, 174–175

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
, 105, 129

Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD)
, 4–5, 21, 106, 190–191, 244

Ministry of Women and Child Development
, 107

Modeling for capacity
, 216

from experiencing to recomposing
, 229–235

implications for building teachers’ capacities
, 235–239

practice & policy
, 217–218

Modeling school culture
, 250–251, 254–258, 261

Monitoring
, 4, 21, 23, 26, 48, 178, 180, 284

sound system of
, 120–121

Montessori schools
, 104, 106

Montessori teacher training
, 112

Moral professionalism
, 70

More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
, 104

Motivation
, 11, 57, 86, 104, 130, 283

Multinational context
, 21, 35

Mumbai
, 11, 111, 191–192, 196, 198, 200–202, 204–208

contemporary PSTE for secondary school teachers in
, 201–203

educational background
, 200

empirical data collection in
, 198

historical, political, socio-economic background of
, 199–200

teacher education background
, 200–201

Mutual transfers
, 141

National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC)
, 66

National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
, 104

National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR)
, 25

National Commission on Teachers
, 22, 58

National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE)
, 5–6, 24, 65–66, 68, 92, 111–112, 116, 132–133, 202, 244, 270

in collaboration with
, 25

framework
, 116

guidelines
, 270

ignorance and negotiating NCTE norms and standards
, 112

National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT)
, 5, 22, 92, 106, 120, 193, 244

Executive Committee of
, 7

NCTE in collaboration with
, 25

for preschool teacher training
, 119–120

National Curriculum Framework (NCF)
, 7, 68

National Curriculum Framework for Teacher Education (NCFTE)
, 7–8, 68, 216, 244, 246

National Education Policy (NEP)
, 8–9, 68, 120

NEP 2020
, 44, 47–48, 105, 114–117, 121

National educational systems
, 3

National Ethics Committee
, 25

National Informatics Centre (NIC)
, 138

National Institute for Public Cooperation and Child Development (NIPCCD)
, 109

National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS)
, 109

National policy discourses on teacher educators professionalism
, 70–75

National Policy on Education (NPE)
, 6, 22, 67, 132, 190

National Policy on ICT in school education
, 48

National Programme on School Standards and Evaluation (NPSSE)
, 25

National reforms
, 190

National Repository of Open Educational Resources (NROERs)
, 119

National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA)
, 25

Navoday Vidyalaya Samiti
, 22–23

Neoliberal educational reforms
, 160

accountability model
, 178–180

case of Delhi
, 168–171

context before AAP
, 171–172

decentralization efforts
, 174–176

methodology
, 162–164

neoliberalism, education and India
, 164–168

performative culture
, 176–178

post 2015
, 172–174

skill-based learning paradigm
, 181

Neoliberal society
, 161

Neoliberalism, 160–161, 164–168, 180, 183 (see also Professionalism)

New Public Management (NPM)
, 20–21

NIPCCD for preschool teacher training
, 119–120

No Child Left Behind (NCLB)
, 30

Non-formal education
, 84

Non-formal educational programs
, 84

Normal universities
, 193

Noticing
, 229–231

Nursery schools
, 106

Nursery Teacher Training (NTT)
, 109, 112

On-site mentoring, sound system of
, 120–121

Online capacity-building program for teachers (OCBP)
, 175–176

Open and distance learning and online mode
, 118–119

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
, 20, 129

Osaka Prefectural Board of Education
, 33–34

Para-teachers
, 52

Pay commission
, 21–22, 26, 144

Pedagogical point
, 231–234

Pedagogy
, 3, 23, 44–45, 53–54, 56, 73, 78, 93, 111, 117, 183, 246

“People-centered” approach
, 272

People’s Republic of China (PRC)
, 196

Performance Grade Index
, 137

Performance indicators (PINDICS)
, 26, 48, 129, 206, 250–251, 253–254, 257, 262, 266

Performance management
, 20, 22, 31, 32, 34

Performance Management and Delivery Unit (PEMANDU)
, 34

Performance standards (PS)
, 26

Performative culture
, 176–178

Performativity
, 178

Periodical increments
, 132

Personal development
, 271

Policy
, 36, 115, 119, 217–218

frameworks
, 98

makers
, 2, 6–7, 10, 12, 82, 83–84, 206, 218

Policy-making
, 6, 57, 145, 191

Post Graduate Diploma in Education (PGDE)
, 202

Practice
, 217–218

Pre-primary teacher training
, 112

Pre-primary Teacher’s Training and Nursery Preprimary Teacher’s Training (NTT)
, 109

Pre-service teacher education (PSTE)
, 11, 55–56, 66–69, 116, 191, 270

contemporary PSTE for secondary school teachers in Mumbai and Hong Kong
, 201–203

Preparatory schools
, 106

Preschool education
, 11, 104

ambiguous/uneven teacher qualification, salary, and professional status
, 111

development
, 106–110

global initiatives for
, 105

ignorance to roles/responsibilities as preschool teacher
, 111

in India
, 106

quality concerns in preschool education with regard to teacher factor
, 110–114

Preschool teacher

convergence and coordination between different ministries and
, 120

demand for preschool teachers in India
, 106–110

ECCE council functional
, 121

ignorance to roles/responsibilities as
, 111

measures to improve quality of
, 114–121

professional development
, 117

qualifications in India
, 116

quality in India
, 104

roles/responsibilities and characteristics
, 115–116

Primary incharges
, 175

Principal Development Programme
, 175

Private schools
, 5, 9, 23, 49, 51, 53, 90, 165, 200, 264

in India
, 5

proliferation
, 161

Private TEIs
, 66

Private tuitions
, 46

Privatization
, 161

Professional accountability
, 32, 70, 207

Professional community
, 39, 70, 76

Professional development
, 4, 6, 31, 33, 48, 57, 67, 77, 87, 117, 245

Professional ethics
, 22, 24

Professional expertise
, 70

of teacher educator
, 75–76

Professional growth programme for teachers (PGPT)
, 266

Professional ideal of service
, 70

Professional practice
, 64–65, 69, 75, 77–79

Professionalism
, 65, 69–75, 168

and curriculum frameworks
, 73–74

and educational policies
, 71–73

lack of
, 112–113

and regulations
, 74–75

Professionalization of teacher education
, 68–69

Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)
, 32

Programme of Action (POA)
, 132

Programme Provincial D’évaluation Du Personnel Enseignant
, 31

Public schools in India
, 5

Quality Assurance Division of the Education and Manpower Bureau
, 34

“Quality Education for All” report
, 169

Quality Framework for School Self-Review and Evaluation
, 244

Quality of practice
, 65, 69–70, 75

Quality of teaching
, 244

Quality preschool education
, 104

Rajasthan Government schools
, 21

Random Control Trial (RCT)
, 129–130

Re-deployment
, 136

Recomposing
, 234–235

Recruitment
, 5, 9, 117, 128, 134, 137–140

Reflection
, 68, 76, 206–209, 216

from teachers and school leaders
, 258–261

Reforms in pre-service teacher education in India
, 67–69

Regional Institutes of Education (RIE)
, 56, 193

Regulatory changes
, 191

Remuneration
, 45, 86, 132–133

Reservation
, 97, 136–137, 139, 142, 152

Responsive policy
, 128, 136–137

Right to Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009 (RTE Act)
, 7, 20, 23–24, 47–48, 53, 82, 133, 200

context
, 83–86

critiquing
, 88–90

duties and monitoring specified by state government RTE
, 28–29

modes of inquiry
, 90–96

recommendations
, 97–98

teacher appraisal in
, 27–30

teacher quality
, 86–88

Right to Education Act
, 7

Rural
, 7, 38, 46

Samargra Shiksha
, 107, 119

Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA)
, 23, 52, 133

for preschool teacher training
, 119–120

School Development and Monitoring Committee (SDMC)
, 25

School Management Committee (SMC)
, 23, 121, 160, 170

School university partnership (SUP)
, 198

School(s)

education
, 132

educational system
, 44–45

in India
, 5

mentor
, 203

reflections and feedback from school leaders
, 258–261

reforms
, 30, 34, 45

school/Block Ethics Committee
, 24–25

system in India
, 50

Schooling
, 44, 46, 57, 77, 84, 88, 129, 161

Schooling, social context of
, 49–50

Scientific Council for Teacher Evaluation
, 32

Secondary Education Commission
, 6

Secondary school
, 33, 65, 135, 152, 201

teacher
, 154

Secondary School Certificate (SSC)
, 5, 200

Secondary teacher education programs
, 66

Secondment
, 204

Sen Committee
, 22

Senior secondary school
, 24–25, 38, 193

Service providers with different modalities
, 112–113

Seventh All India School Education Survey (7th AISES)
, 110

Seventh Pay Commission
, 21

Shaala Siddhi framework
, 25

Shadow education
, 46

Shala Darpan online portal
, 135

Sixth Pay Commission
, 21

Skill development
, 272–273

Skill-based English curriculum
, 172

Skill-based learning paradigm
, 181

SMC fund scheme
, 179

Social context of schooling
, 44, 49–50

Socially just education
, 83

Special allowances
, 144

Specific standards
, 26

Sri Rabindranath Tagore
, 106–107

“Staff Appraisal in Schools”
, 34

Standardization
, 57

State agency
, 50–51

State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT)
, 109, 172

for preschool teacher training
, 119–120

State Ethics Committee
, 25

State Institute of Education (SIE)
, 119

Steering
, 231

Stimulation
, 104

Structural Adjustment Program (SAP)
, 165

Student

achievement
, 2–3, 10, 46, 87, 244

learning
, 82–85

teachers
, 55, 57, 65–67, 198, 202–203

Study Web of Active Learning for Young Aspiring Minds (SWAYAM)
, 119

SUP scheme in Hong Kong
, 204

Supervision
, 21–22, 31, 114, 120

Supervision, sound system of
, 120–121

Supporting manpower, lack of
, 114

Sustainable development
, 271

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
, 105, 129

Taixue
, 192

Tarabai Modak
, 106, 107

Teach for India (TFI)
, 172

Teacher Act
, 33

Teacher Adalats
, 144

Teacher appraisal
, 10, 20, 22–36

as antithesis
, 26–27

embedded in scheme and right
, 23–25

hypotheses and implication
, 36–39

and international concern
, 35–36

in local contexts
, 38–39

and multinational approach
, 30–35

within national context
, 37–38

need for
, 21

policies in India
, 22–23

in project and program
, 25–26

in RTE Act
, 27–30

in sync with global standards
, 37

Teacher development coordinators (TDC)
, 175

Teacher education
, 4–6, 45, 54–55, 58, 65–66, 89, 93, 192–196, 200–209, 167, 216

background of Mumbai and Hong Kong
, 200–201

colleges
, 191

comparative reflections and implications for
, 206–209

history of teacher education and university
, 192–193

inadequacies in
, 55–56

in India
, 195–196

reforms in pre-service teacher education in India
, 67–69

Teacher education institutions (TEIs)
, 8, 65, 67, 190–191

and international school linkage
, 204

TEIs-school linkages
, 203

Teacher educator(s)
, 6, 58, 65–67, 75, 77, 194, 201, 204–206, 225–226, 230, 249

in India
, 65–67

national policy discourses on teacher educators’ professionalism
, 70–75

practice
, 65

professionalism
, 65, 69–70

responsibilities of
, 66–67

role and impact
, 205

synthesis
, 75–77

voices of
, 77–79

Teacher evaluation
, 20–23, 30, 32–33, 35

in Asia
, 33

in India
, 21

worldwide
, 35

Teacher learning materials (TLM)
, 173

Teacher management
, 128–129, 131–135, 137

policies and institutional framework for
, 131–134

Teacher motivation
, 11, 21, 130–131, 136, 145

and quality
, 136–137

Teacher performance
, 22, 25–26, 32–33

evaluation in Europe
, 32

frameworks
, 246–247

management trajectory in South Africa
, 35

Teacher performance review
, 244

continuous improvement
, 265–266

data sources
, 253–254

limitations
, 264–265

methods
, 252–253

objectives or purpose
, 245

perspective
, 245–246

research questions
, 252

results
, 254–261

significance
, 266–267

Teacher Performance Review Diagnostic Tool
, 11

Teacher performance review process (TPRP)
, 247–252, 254, 262

Teacher qualification
, 2–3, 111, 116–117

addressing issues of teacher qualification, salary, and professional status
, 116–117

Teacher quality
, 1–2, 21, 44–46, 86–88, 129–131

complexity
, 50–56

conditions
, 143–145

deficit-oriented outlook
, 53–54

dilemmas and challenges in implementing reforms
, 141–143

elusive definition
, 3–4

Indian education system and teacher preparation
, 4–5

key policy enactments
, 6–10

policies and institutional framework for
, 131–134

rhetoric–reality gap
, 52–53

social context of schooling
, 49–50

state agency
, 50–51

synthesizing and analyzing teacher quality in India
, 10–11

Teacher recruitment
, 8, 128, 136, 152–153

and placement in Karnataka
, 137–140

process in Karnataka
, 152–154

and transfer
, 128

Teacher training
, 4–6, 86, 109–110, 112–113, 121, 160, 270–271

colleges
, 71, 139–140, 193–194

variations in
, 112

Teacher training institutions (TTIs)
, 5

Teacher transfer
, 52, 140–141

process in Karnataka
, 140–141, 154–156

Teacher Transfer Act (2007)
, 141

Teacher(s)
, 64, 104, 131

absenteeism
, 46

agency
, 45

candidates
, 98, 135, 138

competence
, 45

effectiveness
, 20

expectations
, 46–48

implications for building teachers’ capacities
, 235–239

interview schedule for teachers survey
, 156–157

in Karnataka
, 137

maintaining teacher child ratio and availability of trained supportive manpower
, 117–118

narratives
, 90

policies in Karnataka
, 137

preparation
, 3, 5–6, 56, 64–65, 86, 87, 93–94, 113, 193, 244, 246, 270

professional development
, 94–95

professional growth
, 257

professionalism
, 95–96

reflections and feedback from
, 258–261

and Right to Education Act
, 90–92

rights
, 130, 133–134, 140

role
, 49, 218, 235

self-assessment
, 244

status
, 11, 131

subjectivity
, 164, 178

teacher-student ratio
, 89

values and beliefs
, 96

voices
, 92–96

Teachers’ Eligibility Test (TET)
, 139, 152

Teaching
, 55, 64–65, 245

performance
, 254–258

research on quality of
, 247

shifts in teaching performance
, 255–258

teaching-learning materials
, 66, 73

Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS)
, 20

Technology
, 129, 139, 135

Territorial jurisdiction for teacher appraisal
, 31

Textbooks
, 54

Tokyo Prefectural Board of Education
, 33

Tomorrow’s schools
, 32

Training
, 6, 8, 109, 119, 271

Training centers, inadequate, insufficient, and underutilized
, 113

Transfer
, 52, 128, 134, 137, 140–141

Transparent/transparency
, 30, 35, 128, 136, 139, 141, 143, 219

Union Territories (UTs)
, 107

Universities for preschool teacher training
, 119–120

University Education Commission
, 6

University Grants Commission (UGC)
, 66

University-based teacher education, 190, 192–195 (see also Preschool education; Teacher education)

potentials and pitfalls of
, 193–195

programs
, 190

Urban
, 7, 38, 49–50, 171, 193

Vacancies
, 136, 138–139, 143, 152, 155, 172

“White Paper” report
, 169

Working environment
, 116, 132

World Bank National Absence Survey (WBNAS)
, 38

World Trade Organization (WTO)
, 36