The volume views the challenges to the traditional teaching pedagogy in the contemporary scenario. The papers probe questions relating to why teacher education discourse in India is resistant to meaningful cross-examination. They analyse existing dualities and conceptual disconnects relating to education of children and the curriculum, teacher and curriculum, and theory and practice. They view the tension between policy imperative and the lived reality of school education. They scrutinise the intimate relationship between pedagogic practices and trh education of teachers within the larger contemporary Indian socio-cultural context. They probe the role of information and communication technologies in higher education, the e-learning process using CLIPS and the concept of the smart classroom and the multicultural education system with specific reference to Tripura.