There is overwhelming evidence that today’s education is inadequate for responding to the demands of the 21st century and probably beyond. In order to facilitate students’ learning and education, it will be pivotal to firstly re-consider what is required from the teacher and teacher professional competency. In this paper, we argue that for education being responsive to the requirements of the d...

Intrigued by the notion that effective teaching is as much about relationship as it is about ‘technical’ proficiency, the author examines the values of teachers that inform classroom relationships, and poses the question as to whether there are particular teacher values that are necessary for quality values education. This question is addressed by focusing on the teaching strategies involved in...

The discourse of reflection is now firmly embedded in a range of teacher education programs in Australia and overseas. Reflective frameworks have been used by teacher educators to offset the perennial emphasis on technically prescriptive interpretations of ‘being a teacher’. Whilst these undoubtedly contribute to the personal ‘meaning making’ of neophyte teachers, particularly in relation to pr...

The structural complexity of the teacher education unit is pulled together by a common conceptual framework of teacher preparation that is supported by the missions of the university, the colleges and the departments. Our conceptual framework is continually evolving as it is influenced by our study of teacher preparation. We view our program as holistic and dynamic. While supported by the frame...

This research aims to investigate the contributions of KARDS (knowing, analyzing, recognizing, doing, and seeing) to Iranian English as a foreign language (EFL) institute teachers’ professional identity reconstruction. The researchers employed purposive sampling to choose twenty teachers. A KARDS questionnaire (Hassani, Khatib, & Yazdani Moghaddam, 2019a, 2019b) was used to classify the teacher...

introduction: the most important change in medical education is a shift from didactic teacher-centered and subject-based teaching to the use of interactive, problem-based, student-centered learning. student-centered approach is a teaching approach t that encompasses replacing lectures with active learning, integrating self-paced learning programs and cooperative group situations, ultimately hol...

In Australia, growth in the demand of early childhood services for young children aged birth to three years has placed increased pressure on the early childhood education sector as new policy stipulates the need for qualified teachers. The new policy has resulted in a growth in Master of Early Childhood Education programs in Australian universities. These programs are designed as initial teache...

This study was motivated by the premise that no nation grows further than the quality of its education. The paper presents an investigation on the relationships between funding, ICT, selection processes, administration and planning and the standard of science teacher education in Nigeria. The data for the study was gathered through a two page questionnaire administered to 180 respondents who we...

Many countries are implementing educational objectives aimed toward preparing citizens for the information society. The Norwegian teacher education is still in the relatively early stages of adopting ICT. Although there seem to be numerous shortcomings in teacher education , a number of relatively innovative projects are under way several places. This paper will present to innovative cases. ICT...