The Role Of A Teacher Will Have To Change: Anantha Duraiappah

Anantha Duraiappah is the inaugural director of the UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) based in New Delhi, set up in 2014. In partnership with Andhra Pradesh state government, MGIEP recently organised the Transforming Education Conference for Humanity (TECH 2019), which deliberated on the role of digital pedagogies in building sustainable societies.

“We want to brand the TECH not only as a premier conference for knowledge generation, but also for capacity building and, in particular, teacher training,” says Duraiappah. In an interview, over email, with FE’s Vikram Chaudhary, he adds that education systems, the world over and not just in India, need to pay attention to equip learners with emotional intelligence. On the increasing use of artificial intelligence in the education sector in India, he says it implies the need for regulations over the use of student data and, in particular, to protect students from misuse of their data by external parties..……………………………