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The Palgrave Handbook of Teacher Education in Central and Eastern Europe

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  • Conveys teacher education trajectories in a variety of national contexts over the last three decades

  • Provides analysis of teacher education reform trends and implications for teacher education provision

  • Opens up new horizons for rethinking teacher education policies and practices in Central and Eastern Europe

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Introduction

  2. The Visegrad Countries

  3. The Balkans

  4. The Baltics

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This handbook provides a comprehensive, scholarly overview of teacher education in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), since the fall of communism in 1989. It looks closely at recent trends, emerging practices, and possible futures for teacher education in twenty-one CEE countries – reaching from the Balkans, through the Visegrad Group, to Eastern Europe and the Baltics. The contributing authors reflect on their own countries’ uphill battles and journeys towards modernising teacher education over the last three decades. Subsequently, contemporary teacher education policies, structures, and practices are explored in light of Bologna reforms, EU higher education policies, and globalisation processes. Each chapter also offers some predictions about likely future trajectories – with concrete suggestions on how to develop and improve teacher education systems in response to the growing pressures of neoliberal ideologies. The Palgrave Handbook of Teacher Education in Central and Eastern Europe provides a valuable reference that enriches the work of scholars, students, policymakers, and practitioners across CEE and beyond.


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“This timely handbook provides a comprehensive overview of teacher education in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), since the fall of communism in 1989 in twenty-one CEE countries. The scope is comprehensive including countries in the Balkans, the Visegrad Group, Eastern Europe, and the Baltics. Each country chapter covers education trajectories in each national context over the last three decades; analyses teacher education reform trends and their effects on the structure and organization of teacher education provision; and opens up new horizons for rethinking teacher education policies and practices in CEE in an increasingly globalized world. 
I applaud the authors for their useful and original work. The examination of how ‘three decades of substantial reforms have impacted teacher education systems in the CEE region […] by examining recent trends, emerging practices, and possible future scenarios for teacher education’ promises to be an excellent contribution to the scholarly literature in the field of comparative teacher education.” (Maria Teresa Tatto, Professor, Arizona State University, USA)

“The initial idea for this book sparked when I was President of the ATEE, and I immediately supported it since it fills a great need for a deep, comparative overview of the contemporary Central and Eastern European context in teacher education literature. This very high quality book gives the reader a unique opportunity to expand their perspectives on teacher education by listening to voices from beyond the borders of Western Europe. The Palgrave Handbook of Teacher Education in Central and Eastern Europe is a groundbreaking contribution to the field that I believe will prove very useful to scholars and students alike.” (Åsa Morberg, Professor, University of Gävle, Sweden)

“The Handbook of Teacher Education in Central and Eastern Europe is as impressive as it is timely. It provides a comprehensive mapping of teacher education across Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).  The editorial team, who are well-known scholars in the field of teacher education, have brought together authors from twenty-one countries in CEE. Each chapter offers readers fascinating and important insights into developments, opportunities and challenges through sustained periods of radical reform.  These chapters provide a window to understanding complex reform processes from a country perspective, while holistically the book enables understanding of similarities, differences, emerging trends and themes that have relevance for all readers interested in the development of teacher education. At a time when there is increasing emphasis on the importance of engaging with plurality of knowledges and diverse ontological realities, this publication makes a significant contribution to broadening understanding from multiple perspectives of teacher education across Central and Eastern Europe.” (Kay Livingston, Professor, University of Glasgow, Scotland)


Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Białystok, Białystok, Poland

    Marta Kowalczuk-Walędziak

  • Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia

    Roza A. Valeeva

  • Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia

    Marija Sablić

  • University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Ian Menter

About the editors

Marta Kowalczuk-Walędziak is Vice Dean for International Co-operation and Assistant Professor at the University of Białystok, Poland, and Visiting Professor at Daugavpils University, Latvia. She was also a member of the Administrative Council of the Association for Teacher Education in Europe (ATEE), 2018-2021.


Roza A. Valeeva is Professor, D.Sc. of Pedagogic Sciences, Head of the Pedagogy Department in the Institute of Psychology and Education, Kazan Federal University, Russia. She is also the President of Janusz Korczak Society in Russia, member of the Board of the International Korczak Association (IKA). 


Marija Sablić is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and head of the Pedagogy and Contemporary School Culture PhD defence board, J.J. Strossmayer University, Croatia. She was also a member of the Administrative Council of the Association for Teacher Education in Europe (ATEE), 2015-2021.



Ian Menter is Emeritus Professor of Teacher Education at the University of Oxford, UK. He has been the President of both the Scottish and British Educational Research Associations.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Teacher Education in Central and Eastern Europe

  • Editors: Marta Kowalczuk-Walędziak, Roza A. Valeeva, Marija Sablić, Ian Menter

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09515-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-09514-6Published: 25 November 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-09517-7Published: 25 November 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-09515-3Published: 24 November 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 584

  • Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Teaching and Teacher Education, International and Comparative Education, Professional & Vocational Education, Education, general

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