The launch of the journal ‘Voices of Teachers and Teacher Educators’ is an initiative of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) to highlight the vital role of
teacher education in India, as the country is poised to provide quality education to all its children, irrespective of gender, caste, creed, religion and geographies under the
Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act (RtE), 2009. The large influx of teachers necessitated under RtE represents the biggest opportunity to bring fresh
life into schools for decades to come. The challenge is to enhance the role of teachers in shaping the social transformation India is witnessing, as well as have a long lasting
impact on the quality of education, also making it significantly more equitable. Teachers and all those in the system need to recognize that their ownership and voices are
important and that they can and do learn not only from their own experiences but also
from each other through collective reflection and analysis. The publication attempts
to lend voice to teachers, their educators, researchers, administrators and policy makers in the varied institutions: Schools, CRCs, BRCs, DIETs, IASEs, CTEs, SCERTs etc.,
and make visible their engagement in accomplishing extraordinarily complex and
diverse tasks that they are expected to perform. Contributions are welcome both in
English and Hindi and there are plans to produce the journal in a multilingual format
in the near future.