Jonna Kangas – författare

In a time of rapid educational change, Innovative Teacher Training delivers a bold and accessible roadmap for reimagining teacher education. From pre-service and in-service training to vocational education, it blends global perspectives with actionable strategies to tackle societal, technological, and pedagogical challenges.Spanning international contexts, the book showcases fresh and meaningful ways to improve teacher education while prioritizing socio-emotional well-being, interdisciplinary collaboration, and reflective practice. It provides grounded examples of co-teaching models, trauma-informed care, blended learning, participatory pedagogies, and research-based supervision, alongside solutions to systemic issues like teacher shortages, curriculum reforms, and digital integration. Organized into four thematic sections, it explores the current landscape of teacher training, advancements in vocational and primary education, insights from early childhood education, and lessons from student perspectives.Essential for teachers, educators, researchers, policymakers, and institutional leaders, this book offers a rich blend of case studies, theoretical insights, and practical models. It empowers readers to rethink teacher education as a dynamic, collaborative process and provides the tools to build inclusive, future-ready systems in a rapidly evolving world.

In a time of rapid educational change, Innovative Teacher Training delivers a bold and accessible roadmap for reimagining teacher education. From pre-service and in-service training to vocational education, it blends global perspectives with actionable strategies to tackle societal, technological, and pedagogical challenges.Spanning international contexts, the book showcases fresh and meaningful ways to improve teacher education while prioritizing socio-emotional well-being, interdisciplinary collaboration, and reflective practice. It provides grounded examples of co-teaching models, trauma-informed care, blended learning, participatory pedagogies, and research-based supervision, alongside solutions to systemic issues like teacher shortages, curriculum reforms, and digital integration. Organized into four thematic sections, it explores the current landscape of teacher training, advancements in vocational and primary education, insights from early childhood education, and lessons from student perspectives.Essential for teachers, educators, researchers, policymakers, and institutional leaders, this book offers a rich blend of case studies, theoretical insights, and practical models. It empowers readers to rethink teacher education as a dynamic, collaborative process and provides the tools to build inclusive, future-ready systems in a rapidly evolving world.

This book highlights contemporary questions around Early Childhood Education in Finland. The systematic and goal-oriented ECEC system consists of upbringing, education and care with an emphasis on pedagogy in order to produce excellence for the future.

This book highlights contemporary questions around Early Childhood Education in Finland. The systematic and goal-oriented ECEC system consists of upbringing, education and care with an emphasis on pedagogy in order to produce excellence for the future.

This book provides global perspectives on assessment and evaluation practices with young children in contemporary times within early childhood education systems. This book aims to create an international understanding about the thematic conceptions of assessment for early childhood education and care.

This book provides global perspectives on assessment and evaluation practices with young children in contemporary times within early childhood education systems. It critiques and evaluates current evaluation and assessment goals and tools in early childhood settings. The book also compares the different approaches to educational evaluations from different countries in early childhood education and care. It provides insights into different approaches, techniques as well as perspectives of micro and macro-levels of analysis. This book aims to create an international understanding about the thematic conceptions of assessment for early childhood education and care.