Envisioning Teaching and Learning of Teachers for Excellence and Equity in Education

Prof. Xudong Zhu is an expert on comparative and teacher education as well as foreign education history. He is Dean of the Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, General Secretary of Teacher Education Committee of Experts at the Ministry of Education, Director of the Center for Teacher Education Research, one of the Key Research Institutes of Humanities and Social Sciences at Universities, Ministry of Education, and Senior Visiting Scholar in the Fulbright Program at the University of Maryland. He has published more than eighty papers, ten books, and edited four series.Huan Song is Professor and Director of the Institute of Teacher Education, Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University. He serves as Deputy Director of Center for Teacher Education Research of Beijing Normal University, Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences at Universities, the Ministry of Education; Adjunct Researcher at the Asia Pacific Centre for Leadership and Change at the Education University of Hong Kong; and Editor of Cogent Education. He was also selected into Youth Talent Program in Universities in Beijing. His research areas are teacher professional development, school improvement, curriculum reform, action research, and professional learning community. He has published more than 50 papers in SSCI or CSSCI journals, authored book, Research on Teacher Professional Community, and co-authored book, The Top Design of the Construction of Chinese Teachers in the New Era. He is Leader of several national- and provincial-level projects, including How to Improve Quality of Teacher Preparation (General Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China), Research on Reform of Teacher Qualification and Employment, Reform of Teacher Preparation and Training, and Teacher Law Revision (Program of MOE).

• Part 1: Envisioning Teacher High-Quality Preparation: Ideas, Policies and Evaluations.- 1. Teacher Education in at the Crossroads—Educational Ecosystems for Equity and Quality of Learning.- 2. Heterogeneity and Diversity as Educational Requirements: The Academic Qualification Procedure for Teacher Trainees in Germany.- 3. Enhancing Teacher Assessment Literacy: One Approach to Improving Teacher Knowledge and Skills in Australia.- 4. The Development of Quality Assurance Mechanisms for Teacher Education in Taiwan.- 5. Educational Improvement for World-Class Teachers? A Critical Analysis of Policy Implementation in China.- 6. Professional Ethics and Conduct: Perspectives of Chinese Pre-service Teachers.- 7. A Study on the Impact of Teaching Practice on Pre-service Teachers’ Feeling of Preparedness to Teach.- Part 2: Understanding Teacher Quality: Connotation, Factors and Context.- 8. On the Materialist Basis of Teachers’ Holistic Professional Consciousness.- 9. The Ignorance Teaching and Intellectual Emancipation.- 10. Discourses of Teacher Quality: Neoliberalism, Public Choice and Governmentality.- 11. Developing, Sustaining and Retaining Teacher Quality: Factors that Count.- 12. Learning to Teach in Professional Community: Enhancing Teacher Knowledge in Practice.- 13. Rotating for Quality and Equality: A Study on Teachers as Borrowed Talents.- 14. Research on 2016-2030 China’s Urban and Rural Compulsory Education Teacher Demand Forecast.