Kwok Tung Tsui - Böcker

In facing up to the numerous challenges to education in a new era of information technology and globalization, this book of 19 chapters should facilitate the quest for new teacher education for the future. The target audiences are teacher educators, educators, graduate students, researchers, policy makers and those interested in educational reform and teacher education for the new century. The chapters, grouped into three sections - "New Perspectives in Teacher Education and Development", "Reform and Development of Teacher Education", and "Innovation and Reflection on Teacher Education Practice" - are prepared by renowned scholars and researchers from different parts of the world. Cutting across these chapters with international perspectives for an international audience are some very fundamental issues, development trends, reform initiatives, innovative practices, and critical reflection with research and reform implications. They are essential to all efforts to develop a new teacher education in the new millennium.

This book aims to contribute to the ongoing policy debates in education reform and the creation of a new knowledge base that can serve all endeavours at different levels for teaching effectiveness and teacher development in different parts of the world. The target audiences are teacher educators, educators, graduate students, researchers, policy makers and those interested to reform education and teacher education for the new century. This volume includes 19 chapters grouped into three sections: research and analysis of teaching effectiveness and teacher development; the teacher as a professional in a changing context, and innovations and trends in teacher development. The authors of these chapters are scholars and researchers from different parts of the world. They present a range of perspectives, approaches, and research findings that are crucial to our pursuit of a knowledge base for effective teaching and teacher development in the new millennium.

This volume has 22 chapters prepared by experienced scholars and researchers from different parts of the world. Grouped into three sections - "Information Technology, Science and Mathematics", "Social Sciences and General Studies", and "Languages" - the chapters represent a collection of international endeavours committed to facilitate a paradigm shift in subject curriculum and pedagogy and reinforce the quest for a knowledge base that can support the search for conceptions, models, perspectives, innovations, and practices for teaching effectiveness and teacher development in different parts of the world.