A Sound Framework for ICT Integration in Indian Teacher Education

This conceptual analysis aimed at preparing a sound framework for healthy integration of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in Indian teacher education practices. An extensive and integrative literature review was made following the inclusion-exclusion criteria. The models proposed in several previous studies were also gone through and adequately contextualised with the needs and ethos of Indian teacher education programs to build an innovative framework leveraging the optimum potentials of ICTs in educational set up. The findings of the study synthesized with a proposal to build a sound framework for an ideal ICTs integration in Indian teacher education scenario based on seven cardinal principles of good practices with a major shift in emphasis from 'education for ICT' to 'ICT for education', effective to accost the educational transformations for 21st century India. The implication was that by adopting such a sound framework the teacher education in the country could exploit the genuine benefits of ICTs thereby augmenting its educational outputs to the fullest.