"A Knowledge Base for Teacher Education and Development: Bibliographies 1990-2000" is a series of bibliographies co-published by The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Kluwer Academic Publishers, the Korean Education Development Institute, Office of National Education Commission Thailand and Asia-Pacific Educational Research Association. The series presents a comprehensive knowledge base of literature and materials in different themes and areas in teacher education, teacher development and teaching effectiveness. This knowledge base is built on a comprehensive and conceptual framework as a systematic way for searching, identifying and classifying the key literature from the immense volume of the available information and the multiplicity of numerous sources in different parts of the world. The series aims to support teacher educators, researchers, policy-makers and teachers in practice, policy, development and research. In five volumes of hard copy with CD-ROM and search engine, the series has 14,514 entries in 20 major sections and 141 themes on different aspects of teacher education, professional development and teaching effectiveness.The five volumes are "Research Issues and Contexts of Teacher Education and Development", "Programme and Process of Teacher Education", "Quality Assurance, Reform and IT in Teacher Education", "Teacher Study and Teaching Competence", and "Staff Development and Teaching Development in Subject Areas and Higher Education". Each volume covers a major area of literature. There are around 310 pages of each volume with a total of over 1500 pages in the five volumes. All entries are in English from different parts of the world. Also, a CD-ROM with search engine is provided to enhance the readers' efficient search for reference materials by any keywords or author names. Readers should find this publication a convenient and practical tool to identify sources of empirical knowledge, critical ideas, and analytical perspectives that are essential to facilitating the enhancement of teacher education and teacher development in this rapidly changing education environment.
