Quality and Change in Teacher Education

1. Western and Chinese Perspectives on Quality and Change in Teacher Education
John Chi-Kin Lee, Christopher Day

Part I. Quality in Teacher Education

2. Teachers and the Quality of Education: Why Resilience Counts Most in Testing Times
Christopher Day

3. Teacher Education in the Greater China Region: Status, Issues and Prospects
John Chi-Kin Lee, Huan Song

4. Status and Quality of Teacher Education in the US: Neoliberal and Professional Tensions
Robert V. Bullough

5. What Is High Quality Teacher Education?
David Imig, Donna L. Wiseman, Angela Wiseman, Scott R. Imig

6. Quality Initial Teacher Education Policy and Practice in Australia and England: Past, Present and Possible Futures
Anne Jasman

7. The Need for Stakeholder Alignment on the Future of Teacher Education in Australia
Brian J. Caldwell

Part II. Innovative and Effective Curriculum, Teaching and Assessment Practices of Teacher Education

8. Different Modes of Field Experience in Teacher Education Programmes
May May-Hung Cheng, John Chi-Kin Lee

9. Initial Teacher Education and Assessment of Graduates in Australia
Diane Mayer, Andrea Allard, Julianne Moss, Mary Dixon

10. E-portfolios in Pre-service Teacher Education: Sustainability and Lifelong Learning
Cher Ping Lim, John Chi-Kin Lee, Nan Jia

11. Preservice Teachers’ Reflective Journaling: A Way to Know Culture
Cheryl J. Craig, Yali Zou, Gayle Curtis

12. Internationalization in Teacher Education in the US: Innovative Programs and Practices to Meet the Global Challenges of Tomorrow’s Schools
Reyes L. Quezada, Paula A. Cordeiro

Part III. Issues of Managing Change in Teacher Education

13. The Idea of the Normal University and the University of Education: Implications for a Confucian Pedagogy
Ruth Hayhoe

14. Connecting Higher Education and Schools: Building Partnerships for Capacity Building and School Improvement in England
Qing Gu

15. Accountability, Standards and Activism: A Challenge or Opportunity for Teacher Education
Judyth Sachs

16. Understanding Professional Knowledge of Teaching and Its Importance to Scholarship in Teacher Education
John Loughran

17. Quality Teaching as Moral Practice: Cultivating Practical Wisdom

Deborah L. Schussler, Peter C. Murrell

18. Teacher Education, Students with Diverse Needs and Social-Emotional Education
Paul Cooper

19. Teacher Education Between Two Worlds: Past and Future
Miriam Ben-Peretz, Tali Aderet-German

Keywords: Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, International and Comparative Education, Educational Policy and Politics