As teachers and teacher education rises to the top of the global education agenda,
questions about what makes for quality teacher education programmes, what accounts for …

This chapter examines the ways in which teacher education has been positioned in
education policy globally and what this indicates about teacher professionalism and …

In the past decade, as we have seen in the previous two chapters, teacher education has
assumed greater significance in global education policy (OECD, 2011a, 2011b; Asia …

Increasingly, improving teacher quality is assumed to be a central strategy for improving a
nation's ability to compete in the global economy, ensure the quality of its work force, and …

The work of teacher educators has been undermined by the ambiguous nature of the
undertaking they are engaged in. Optimistically, things are changing as more nations regard …

Since the 1990s, teacher education policies and programmes in Nordic countries have been
increasingly shaped by their profound involvement in international and transnational …

In many countries, teacher education is being increasingly framed as a policy problem that
requires national solutions and large-scale reforms. In this context, a group of leading …

Interest in teacher education examined from comparative and international perspectives has
gradually increased over the past two to three decades, with literature in this domain …

This article presents an in-depth case analysis of Norwegian teacher training, exploring the
intricate dynamics between global blueprints, national problem constructions and local …

This article focuses on teacher education reforms and related discourses. Internationally, the
last decade has been an intensive period of educational reforms and restructuring …