This chapter highlights conclusions from the previous chapters about factors impinging on the design of teacher education programs and then assembles a design brief informed by the research reviewed. It begins with economic and social factors impinging on the recruitment, preparation and retention of teachers. It then looks at overall national policy for teachers and teacher education. National...

The teaching process cannot be simplified to definitions of the best teachers as those possessing certain desirable teaching behaviours and skills (Katz, 2002). Although there are numerous factors that significantly influence learning and teaching, one might agree that specific teaching roles dominantly determine the quality of preschool teaching processes and learning outcomes. Furthermore, tw...

Western-Anglophone universities are increasingly focusing on internationalization, but have not made languages a strategic focus. This paper argues that the bilingual competence of international students is an asset rather than a deficit. It reports a case study of the Research-Oriented School-Engaged Teacher Education (ROSETE) Program, which is an international collaborative professional devel...

Education reform is expected to change teacher’s identity undergo changes, which in turn may influence various aspects of their professional life. As such, teacher education context has received strong attention the literature last decade or so. This article provides a systematic and critical review empirical research published after 2010 on Chinese teachers’ construction. It conceptualizes con...

Information and communication technologies (ICT) have become common place entities in all aspects of life. Across the past twenty years the use of ICT has fundamentally changed the practices and procedures of nearly all forms of endeavor within business and governance. Within education, ICT has begun to have a presence but the impact has not been as extensive as in other fields. Education is a ...

Initiation into contextualizing mindful second language teacher education (SLTE) has challenged teacher educators causing their retreat into mindless submission to ready-made standardized directives. To revive the starting perspective in curriculum development in light of the recent trend towards responsive SLTE, this practitioner research investigated how the context was incorporat...