Overview
- This book provides a comparative perspective and different methodologies to answering the question how to prepare high quality teachers in the East and the West
- This book combines theoretical discussion, policy analysis and empirical studies in teacher preparation
- This book responses the common and different challenges of teacher preparation in the East and the West and how they can learn from each other
Part of the book series: New Frontiers of Educational Research (NFER)
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This book addresses two main questions, namely how to prepare high-quality teachers in the 21st century and how the East and the West can learn from each other. It addresses the different challenges and dilemmas that eastern countries, especially China, and western countries are facing with regard to teacher education. We explore the question by examining teacher education research, practice and policy in different countries, identifying both common problems and country-specific challenges. We then try to find valuable experiences, theories and practice which can solve specific problems in the process of teacher education, also addressing how local and global factors impact it.
In this regard, our approach does not strictly separate pre-service teacher education from teachers’ in-service professional development, adopting an integrative perspective. Further, we believe the respective social and cultural contexts must also be taken into account. Lastly, we call for teachers’ knowledge and individual character traits to be accounted for in the education of high-quality teachers.
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Teacher Preparation and Teacher Quality
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Preparing Teachers and Teacher Educators Globally and Locally
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Professional Development
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Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Preparing Teachers for the 21st Century
Editors: Xudong Zhu, Kenneth Zeichner
Series Title: New Frontiers of Educational Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36970-4
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-36969-8Published: 07 January 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-52420-6Published: 27 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-36970-4Published: 16 December 2013
Series ISSN: 2195-3473
Series E-ISSN: 2195-349X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 407
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Teaching and Teacher Education, Professional & Vocational Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Sociology of Education