Dr. Jayanta Mete is an eminent teacher educator, distinguished author and research guide in the field of Tribal Education, Educational Sociology, Population Education, History of Education and Environmental Education. He is at present Professor, Department of Education, Faculty of Education, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, Nadia, West Bengal, India. Dr. Mete obtained M.A.(Geo), B.Ed., M.Ed. and Ph.D. from Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, Birbhum, West Bengal, India. The author supervised 45 Ph. D scholars and 25 M.Phil scholars and published more than 300 research papers in leading journals and edited books. The author has attended and presented papers in about 70 National and International seminars, workshop and conferences. His major area of teaching is Tribal Education, Educational Sociology, Population Education, History of Education and Environmental Education. He authored more than 80 books on educational issues. He also edits Peer-Reviewed three journals entitled “Journal of Education and Development” , Journal of Knowledge “ and “Journal of Educational Thoughts” (UGC approved).  He has developed the modules and syllabi of UG, P. G., B.Ed., M.Ed. courses and in Ph.D. both regular and distance mode of different universities. For a short span of time, he has been associated with different academic bodies and associations like NCTE, SCERT, NCERT and UGC as well as in different universities within and out of India. He has more than 30 years teaching