Teaching and Teacher Education

Rohit Setty was a USIEF Fulbright–Nehru Fellow with the National Council of Educational Research and Training’s Regional Institute of Education, Mysore, India, and holds a PhD from the University of Michigan, USA.Radhika Iyengar is Associate Research Scholar at the Center for Sustainable Development at the Earth Institute, Columbia University, USA. Matthew A. Witenstein is Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Administration at University of Dayton, USA. Erik Jon Byker is Assistant Professor in the Department of Reading and Elementary Education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA.Huma Kidwai is Education Specialist with the World Bank’s East Africa Division (Education–Global Practice). She holds an EdD from Teachers College, Columbia University, USA.

• 1. Introduction: Focusing on Practice.- 2. Outcome-based Education (OBE) in Accounting in Sri Lanka: Insights for Teacher Education.- 3. Paradoxes in Teacher Education: Voices from the Indian Context.- 4. Continuous Professional Development (CPD) and Teacher change in India and South Asian Nations: An Analysis of Literature and Policy Documents.- 5. "What Can We Do If They Are Not Getting?": Perspectives of Teachers on Inclusive Education in a Low-Fee paying Private English Medium School.- 6. Exploring the Gender Gap in Reading in Pakistan.- 7. Mapping workflows and perceptions of Dehli's government school teachers. 8. Active learning reform in the Maldives: What works for whom under what circumstances.- 9. Barriers to Effectiveness in the Classroom: Three Cases of Novice Teachers in Bangladesh.- 10. People, not numbers: Using data to humanize and strengthen teacher support systems in India.- 11. Designing for Technology Enabled Reflective Practice: Teachers' Voices on Participating ina Connected Learning Practice.- 12. Transformative Problem-Posing Teacher Education: A Framework for Engaging with Teachers' Beliefs through Teacher Education in India.- 13. Not under my Parachute: How co-curricular offerings exacerbate inequities under the Right to Education Act.- 14. Teacher Preparation for Environmental Education and Education for Sustainable Development in India.- 15. Pastoral Care Teaching: Effectively and Affectively.- 16. The Sastras of Teacher Education in South Asia: Conclusion.