The current policy gaze on teacher quality is resulting in significant shifts in how teacher
education is conceptualized, designed and delivered. Traditional approaches to teacher …

In this article, the authors argue for making practice the core of teachers' professional
preparation. They set the argument for teaching practice against the contemporary backdrop …

This paper examines the current shape of teacher professional learning, or in-service
teacher education, in Australia. Increasingly, teacher professional learning is positioned as …

Challenges to practicum! The authors have explored professional practice knowledge and
the ways practicum is dealt with in teacher education. They report from Research and …

Teacher education is a field of study that has increasingly come under scrutiny in recent
times as the expectations for the teaching workforce and the hopes for advancement in …

This article connects with an international debate around the place of professional standards
in educational policy targeted at enhancing teacher quality, with associated implications for …

Today's teachers need to prepare students for jobs that have not yet been created, to use
technologies that have not yet been invented, and to solve social problems that haven't …

In the past decade, notions of teacher professionalism have been associated with increased
accountability, standards, performance assessments, and teacher testing, and impacted by …

The research teachers carry out into their own professional practice and environment is
increasingly recognised as highly relevant and valuable. As well as being an exciting and …