Reflections on Challenges facing Contemporary Indian Education

he contemporary Indian education must confront the unresolved question on how to provide diverse population with an education that is of equitably high quality. The real challenge facing educational institutions today is not to bring improvement but to sustain the improvement. The internal mechanisms of institutions to maintain and support development and leadership capability of the majority rather than a few can help sustain the much needed improvement. This book is an effort to explore the critical role of significant stakeholders in the improvement of the system of education. Author has made an attempt map the main contours of the challenges in education and arranged articles under five related themes; Reflections on emerging challenges in Indian Society, Reflections on emerging challenges for Leaders, Teachers and Research, Reflections on emerging challenges in Quality Assurance and Accountability, Reflections on emerging challenges in Higher Education, Reflections on emerging challenges in education for; peace, gender and conflict zones The collection tries to encompass and indicate towards the critical areas where immediate attention is required in the field of education