Teacher Education Policy and Practice

Part I. International Perspectives on Assessing the Impact of Teacher Education Policy and Practice

1. What Counts? Who is Counting? Teacher Education Improvement and Accountability in a Data-Driven Era
Diana Pullin

2. Developing Professional Learner Identities: A Critical Piece in the Classroom Readiness Puzzle
Ellen Larsen

3. Policy-Makers’ and Practitioners’ Perspectives on Impact, Evidence, and Support for Teacher Educators Implementing Environmental Education for Sustainability in India
Sylvia Almeida

Part II. The Impact of Change and Innovation in Teacher Education Practice

4. Site-Based Teacher Education as a Context for Attending to the Complexity and Person-Centred Nature of Teaching and Learning: A Narrative Inquiry Involving Teacher Educators from Australia and the United States
Amanda McGraw, Janna Dresden, Erica Gilbertson, Melissa Baker

5. Becoming Professionally Agentic: Researching Pedagogical Reasoning in Initial Teacher Education
Jenny Martin, Stephen Keast, Lucy Anders

6. Can Career Changers Be Game Changers? Policy, Research and Practice Concerning Career Changers
Meera Varadharajan, Sandy Schuck

7. Managing the Personal Impact of Practicum: Examining the Experiences of Graduate Diploma in Education Students
Deanna Grant-Smith, Jenna Gillett-Swan

Part III. Investigation and Critique of Debates About Evidence and Impact in Teacher Education

8. How Do the Standards Stand up? Applying Quality Teacher Frameworks to the Australian Professional Standards
John Buchanan

9. Caught Between Competing Worlds: Teacher Education in Australia
Sally Knipe, Tanya Fitzgerald

Avainsanat: Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation, Professional & Vocational Education