Preparing Teachers For The 21st Century (new Frontiers Of Educational Research)

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. Front Matter....Pages i-xi Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Two Visions of Teaching and Teacher Education for the Twenty-First Century....Pages 3-19 Teacher Quality in the Twenty First Century: New Lives, Old Truths....Pages 21-38 The Continuing ‘Problem’ of Teacher Education: Policy Driven Reforms and the Role of Teacher Educators....Pages 39-52 “Evidence-Based Teaching, Evidence-Based Teacher Education” (Quality of Teachers and Quality of Teacher Education)....Pages 53-66 Practices, Experience and Policy Orientation for Free Education in Normal Universities in China....Pages 67-76 Front Matter....Pages 77-77 Discussion of the Reconstruction of Rural Teacher Training Configuration in China....Pages 79-95 The International Terrain of Teaching and Teacher Education: How can Teacher Educators Prepare Teachers for a World We Cannot Envision....Pages 97-118 Exploring the Interaction of Global and Local in Teacher Education: Circulating Notions of What Preparing a Good Teacher Entails....Pages 119-140 Worldly Critical Theorizing in Euro-American Centered Teacher Education? Preparing Bilingual Teacher-Researcher Theorists for the Twenty-First Century....Pages 141-169 Teacher Education in Hong Kong: Status, Contemporary Issues and Prospects....Pages 171-187 Preparing Teacher Educators in U.S. Doctoral Programs....Pages 189-199 Research on the Impact of Chinese Teacher Preparation Reform on Teacher Candidates’ Quality After the 1990s....Pages 201-213 Front Matter....Pages 215-215 Push, Pull and Nudge: The Future of Teaching and Educational Change....Pages 217-236 Learning to Teach Against the Institutional Grain: A Professional Development Model for Teacher Empowerment....Pages 237-250 Teacher Education: A Question of Sustaining Teachers....Pages 251-262 Professional Learning as a Moral Drive from Critical Discourse....Pages 263-279 Front Matter....Pages 281-281 Social Justice and Teacher Education: Where Do We Stand?....Pages 283-296 Who Are the Teachers and Who Are the Learners? Teacher Education for Culturally Responsive Pedagogy....Pages 297-308 The Making of Teachers for the Twenty-First Century: Australian Professional Standards and the Preparation of Culturally Responsive Teachers....Pages 309-321 Front Matter....Pages 323-323 Mathematics Knowledge for Teaching and Its Influential Factors: An Analysis of Chinese Elementary Mathematics Teachers....Pages 325-349 Front Matter....Pages 323-323 Living Within the Tensions: A Narrative Inquiry into Teachers’ Personal Practical Knowledge in the Midst of Chinese Curriculum Reform....Pages 351-369 Language Teacher Emotion in Relationships: A Multiple Case Study....Pages 371-393 Tensions and Relations: Exploring the Dynamic Relationship Between Teachers’ EFL (English as a Foreign Language) Teaching and Learning Beliefs and Practices....Pages 395-407 This title addresses a question 'how to prepare high quality teachers in the 21st century and how the East and the West can learn from each other?' The book addresses the different challenges and dilemma the eastern countries, especially China, and the western countries are facing on teacher preparation. We explore the question by examining teacher education research, practice and policy in different countries This book surveys challenges and dilemmas in teacher preparation faced by eastern countries, especially China, and western countries. The authors explore local factors, teacher education research, practice and policy, and offer insight on paths to improvement.