Quality of Teacher Education and Learning

Part I:Theoretical discussion.- Building theoretical Framework of the Teacher professional development (Xudong Zhu).- The Historical Context of the Role, Status and Identity of Scholars and Teachers in Traditional China: A Synopsis (Leslie Lo).- School Leadership as an Influence on Teacher Quality (C. Day).- Quality in teacher education: Challenging assumptions, building understanding through foundation principles (John Loughran).- Part II: Teaching and Learning in Teacher Preparation.- An international comparative analysis of the motivations and challenges that cooperating teachers encounter in their work with student teachers in practicum settings (Anthony Clarke).- Beyond the Reach of Teaching: Learning as Experience in Teacher Education (Michael Schratz).- Professional Ethics and Conduct: Perspectives of Chinese pre-service teachers (John Chi-Kin Lee).- Part III: Teachers Self and Identity.- Sustaining Beginning Teachers: Attending to the Best-Loved Self in Teacher Preparation and Beyond (Cheryl Craig).- Resilient Teachers, Resilient Schools: Building and Sustaining Quality in Testing Times (Qing Gu).- Essential issues in developing a professional identity as a teacher (Paulien C. Meijer).- Part IV: The inter-cultural conversation on teacher education.- Teaching in the context of globalization: Implications for teacher education (Lynn Paine).- The Complexities of Transformative Learning: Evaluating Student Teacher Narratives of a Global Citizenship Field Experience Course (George Richardson).- Part V: Teachers and Educational Reform.- The Person in the World Project: On the Relation between Persons and Roles in Teaching and Teacher Education (David Hansen).- Teachers Practical Reasoning in Dilemmas of the Curriculum Reform (Chen Xiangming).- Definitional, Design, and Dispositional Understandings: Essential Competencies for Teacher Excellence in Creative Pedagogy (Sarah Thomas).