This article proposes a conceptual framework to examine the development of the teacher education system in contemporary China. Within the framework, three development periods, including the era of shifan, and the era of post-shifan, the era of professional teacher education, are investigated in terms of governance, institutional structures, and resource allocation. With the central government d...

A European Union funded Leonardo da Vinci Pilot Project on Work Based Learning ended September 2005 (Leonardo 2003). This paper gives some of the key findings from this project. The project idea was to bring together a number of European universities exploring the area of Work Based Learning (WBL) in relation to Continuing Engineering Education (CEE). The paper discusses two areas of the overal...

Gifted education is not provided in many rural schools. Some teacher educators believe that one of the reasons for this is that gifted teachers and gifted teacher training programs are oriented to provide education applicable only to urban and suburban settings. This paper presents the results of a survey of representatives of teacher training institutions offering gifted education programs. Th...

This paper illustrates consideration of multiple facets of mathematics teacher knowledge through interviews, demonstrates how teachers have different knowledge profiles, and discusses the implications for professional development. This study focuses on interviews with eight teachers, which were analyzed using Ball, Thames, and Phelps’ (2008) framework of teacher knowledge, assigning knowledge t...

PALABRAS CLAVE IFE; AICLE; Formación de profesorado; Multilingüismo Abstract Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is an innovative approach to foreign language learning based on the integration of language with (non-language) content in a dual-focussed learning environment. This article addresses teacher training in the framework of CLIL, focusing on the speciÞ c needs and challenges...

This paper reports on findings from two action research projects in Australian schools focussing on the provision of professional learning to support the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in teaching and learning. For the purposes of comparative analysis, as well as school circumstances, different models of professional learning were used in the two schools. Both models supp...

Throughout the history of early childhood education, numerous educators have viewed the environment as the third teacher, and therefore as having equal importance as the teacher. How is thinking about the environment as the third teacher beneficial? A welldesigned environment can support and enhance all areas of children’s development and learning, just as a poorly planned environment can detra...

Different aspects of identity have been investigated across various educational fields. Although many studies have been done to investigate different aspects of EFL teachers’ identity development, there is a paucity of research on identity-oriented EFL teacher education programs. Hence, the purpose of the current study was to investigate EFL teacher educators’ and EFL teachers’ perspectives abo...