The title of the 2014 Australian Teacher Education Association (ATEA) conference was
Teacher Education, An Audit: Building a platform for future engagement. One of the …

186 Introduction that triggered Watt's interest. Thus began the marriage of teacher education
with theories of career choice and motivation which resulted in the FIT-Choice program of …

Many teacher education researchers have expressed concerns about the lack of rigorous
impact evaluations of teacher preparation practices. I summarize these various concerns as …

AER 61 discusses the contemporary influences on initial teacher education, with particular
attention to the notion of quality teaching, and the role of teacher education and teacher …

The purpose of this thesis is to unveil the complexities surrounding out-of-field teaching.
Outof-field teaching entails teachers teaching outside their field of qualification, this field …

This Special Issue includes papers that highlight aspects of teacher education research,
policy and practice in Australia, England, Northern Ireland, the USA, and Wales. In this …

The research field of teacher education is varied and diverse, drawing on a wide range of
theories and methodological approaches. One of the metaphors, however, used to think and …

This study aimed to investigate the motivational factors that lead to choice of teaching career
in expatriate teachers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). A UAE version of the Factors …

This paper aims to identify key motivational factors and examine the role of gender that
influence positively decision to become a teacher in the UAE. Furthermore, due to recent …

This paper seeks to understand how persistent categories of written language in institutional
texts support the cultural-historical production and re-production of teacher educators as …