Educational Quest- An International Journal of Education and Applied Social Sciences
  • Year: 2025
  • Volume: 16
  • Issue: 2

Teacher Education: Today’s Need for Sustainable Development

  • Author:
  • Gayatri Choukade1,*, Madhuri Yadav2, Vilas Ugale2
  • Total Page Count: 4
  • Published Online: Oct 27, 2025
  • Page Number: 217 to 220

1Department of Education & Extension, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Maharashtra, India

2MCE Society H.G.M. Azam College of Education, Pune, Maharashtra, India

*Corresponding author: gayatri.choukade@gmail.com

Online Published on 27 October, 2025.

Abstract

Education plays a crucial role in the accomplishment of Sustainable goals. Education and sustainable development are interrelated with each other as they both deals with well managed livelihood, equity and equality in society, constant economic growth and many more issues related with social up gradation. Teacher is an important factor in our education system. A teacher is a person who is responsible for the students’ academic progress, future achievements as well professional development. Teachers have to aware about his/her duties and responsibilities if they are aware of his/her duties and responsibilities then they can transfer all these characteristics in future generations. Today’s students are the future of our nation. Teachers are preparing the future of our nation by giving them the better education. They serve education which is an effective instrument of man making. Education is the backbone of the society. Through the education we can make advancements in areas including technology, business, economics, peace, social justice, and human rights. So the teacher education is mandatory to achieve the educational or the sustainable development goals. Teacher education is an important aspect to the sustainable goals. Through this study, researcher described about the key component of education i.e. a teacher as a change agent, highlights the need of the Teacher education, explain the sustainable development and how we can achieve the Educational as well as the Sustainable development goals through teacher education.

Keywords

Teacher Education, Sustainable Development