The journal ‘Voices of Teachers and Teacher Educators’, an initiative of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) (at present Ministry of Education) is being co-ordinated by the NCERT. The Journal highlights 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 geography. The National Curriculum Framework (NCF)-2005, the National Curriculum Framework for Teacher Education (NCFTE)-2009 and the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act (RTE)-2009 and also the National Education Policy (NEP)-2020 all reflect this commitment and underline the principles that make such an effort necessary and also spell out the strategies for it. The challenge is to ... More