Quality of Teacher Education and Learning

Part I. Innovative Ideas and Practices in Teacher Learning and Teacher Preparation

1. Innovation in Teacher Education: Cutting Edge? Or on the Cutting Room Floor?
A. Lin Goodwin

2. Comparative Work Within the Context of Practicum Settings: A First Look at What Motivates and Challenges Cooperating Teachers from Five Countries
Anthony Clarke, John Collins

Part I. Innovative Ideas and Practices in Teacher Learning and Teacher Preparation

3. Re-Imagining Educational Research on Teaching: An Interview with Dr. David T. Hansen
David T. Hansen, Huajun Zhang

4. On the Attributes of the Teacher’s “Holistic Profession”
Xudong Zhu

5. Quality in Teacher Education: Challenging Assumptions, Building Understanding Through Foundation Principles
John Loughran

6. Alternative Framing of Teacher Education: A Challenge for Teacher Education in an Age of Globalization
Lynn Paine

7. School Leadership as an Influence on Teacher Quality
Christopher Day

8. Resilient Teachers, Resilient Schools: Building and Sustaining Quality in Testing Times
Qing Gu

9. The Affective Dimension of Teacher Education: Based on Interaction Between Personal Academic Interest, Social Change and Education Reform
Xiaoman Zhu

Part IV. Roles and Identities of Teachers

10. The Historical Context of the Role and Status of Scholars and Teachers in Traditional China
Leslie Nai Kwai Lo, Juyan Ye

11. Sustaining Teachers: Attending to the Best-Loved Self in Teacher Education and Beyond
Cheryl J. Craig

12. Essential Issues in Developing a Professional Identity as a Teacher
Paulien C. Meijer

Keywords: Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, Sociology of Education, Administration, Organization and Leadership