Policies around the world increasingly call for teachers to become 'agents of change', often
linked to social justice agendas. However, there is little clarity about the kind of …

Internationally teachers are called upon to act as agents of change. However, there is little
clarity about the kind of change teachers are expected to contribute to and even less …

Teacher's professional competencies have been discussed extensively in the literature,
often linked to educational policy discourses, teaching standards, student learning …

Comparative education analyses have traditionally focused on geographic entities as the
unit of comparison. As this book demonstrates, comparisons can be made across many …

This conceptual paper puts forward the construct termed teacher curriculum competence,
which is an amalgamation of theoretical or formal and personal practical teacher knowledge …

Around the world, the overall design features of many initial teacher education programs
bear strong core similarities, even though their specific duration and structure might vary. In …

This research focuses on the identity development of ten student teachers during a one-year
Teacher's Pedagogical Studies program in Finland. The students wrote narratives that …

A partir del curso académico 2010-11 se ha iniciado en Europa de modo oficial el Espacio
Europeo de Educación Superior (EEES), y con él la puesta en marcha de las denominadas …

This article provides an analysis of contemporary comparative research on pedagogy, as
published since 2000. It explores this sub-field of comparative education inquiry over this …

Education systems around the world need to recruit highly motivated individuals to become
teachers and prepare professionally competent teacher education graduates to take up …