Synopsis Foreword. Acknowledgements. List of contributors. 1. Smart education and use of direct media service for bridging the digital divide/A.N. Maheshwari. 2. Education of techno-savy child: opportunities and threats/A.N. Maheshwari. 3. Neither colonial nor globalization: restructuring teacher education in Indian reality/Anil Sadgopal. 4. Preparing educational leaders rather than pedagogues/B.P. Khandelwal. 5. Emerging issues in curriculum design, management and transaction/G. Balasubramaniam. 6. Difficult questions: elusive answers, reforming teacher-education, setting agenda and the priorities for teacher education reforms/Girish Bala Choudhary. 7. Collaborative learning online : a new approach to tutorial for in-service programmes for teachers/Kailash Khanna. 8. Planned lessons and other problems of teacher education/Krishna Kumar. 9. Analytic approach to classroom teaching and related research paradigms/L.C. Singh. 10. Walking the talk: quality management in teacher training/Marmar Mukhopadhayay. 11. Teacher education : some concerns/Mohammad Miyan. 12. Teacher education : a social mission/N.K. Ambasht. 13. Disparate learners: common goals; personal potentials/Renu Malaviya. 14. Teacher education under the scanner/R.P. Sharma. 15. Management of quality and teacher education: some critical issues/R. Govinda. 16. Constructivism in science teaching/Shashi Guglani. 17. Professional development of teacher educators/Virinder K. Sabharwal. 18. Professional ethics and the teaching community/Veena Thapar and Mani Bhasin Kalra. 19. Contextualising education for whom, for what and how/Yash Pal.