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Organised around four sections, this introductory chapter aims to explore the contextual factors which have shaped the development of teacher education in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) over the last three decades. The first section describes the personal and professional motivations driving the process of creating this handbook. The second section briefly overviews the modern landscape of CEE. The third section then presents the overarching framework adopted in this handbook for tracing teacher education trajectories across 21 CEE settings from the early 1990s to the present day, and then foreshadows some of the key themes that will be discussed more fully in the concluding chapter. The final part overviews the handbook’s structure, offering individual chapter highlights.
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Kowalczuk-Walędziak, M., Menter, I., Sablić, M., Valeeva, R.A. (2023). Setting the Scene: The Changing Contexts of Teacher Education in Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond. In: Kowalczuk-Walędziak, M., Valeeva, R.A., Sablić, M., Menter, I. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Teacher Education in Central and Eastern Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09515-3_1
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