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Book SynopsisExamining teacher education in an international context, this book captures the diversity of the world's educators. Many countries confront surprisingly similar challenges in preparing K12 educators for success, while national contexts also make for surprising differences. In Teaching the World's Teachers, education historians Lauren Lefty and James W. Fraser and their contributors make a convincing case for approaching these shared challenges from a more global and historically minded perspective. Written by education scholars from eleven different countriesArgentina, Brazil, Catalonia-Spain, China, England, Finland, Ghana, Israel, Singapore, South Africa, and the United Statesthis book provides histories of teacher education reforms between roughly 1980 and 2020. The authors show how international trends that emerged during this period collided with national and regional contexts to produce unique teacher education systems in different nations. While in some countries the embrace o
Table of ContentsPreface. Why Look at Teacher Preparation Globally?
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Teaching the World's Teachers: A Long and Global History
Lauren Lefty
Chapter 1. Argentina
Continuities and Transformations of Argentina's Teacher Education: Policies and Reforms since the Mid-Eighties
Gustavo E. Fischman and Paula Razquin
Chapter 2. Brazil
Teacher Formation in Brazil: "Old" and "New" Approaches to Teacher Training Given Today's Challenges for the Teaching Profession
Silvana Mesquita and Maria Inês Marcondes
Chapter 3. Catalonia-Spain
Preparing Teachers for the Schools We Have or for the Schools We Want? Challenges and Changes in Catalonia (Spain)
Eduard Vallory
Chapter 4. China
Teacher Education Reform and National Development in China (1978-2017): Four Metaphors
Wei Liao and Yisu Zhou
Chapter 5. England
Crisis and Opportunity in Teacher Preparation in England
Richard Andrews
Chapter 6. Finland
Teacher Education in Finland: Persistent Efforts for High-Quality Teachers
Hannele Niemi and Jari Lavonen
Chapter 7. Ghana
Transforming Teacher Preparation and Development in Ghana: Progress and Prospects
Kwame Akyeampong
Chapter 8. Israel
From Traditional to Dialogical-Reflective Teacher Training: The Case of Teacher Education in Israel
Arie Kizel and Lily Orland-Barak
Chapter 9. Singapore
Teacher Education for a Knowledge-Based Economy: The Singaporean Case
Jason Loh and Guangwei Hu
Chapter 10. South Africa
Reforming South Africa's Teaching: The Difficult Dilemmas of Teacher Education Policy Reform Post-1994
Azeem Badroodien and Carol Anne Spreen
Chapter 11. United States
Changing Paths and Enduring Debates in US American Teacher Education
Lauren Lefty and James W. Fraser
A Concluding Word
Lauren Lefty and James W. Fraser
Contributors
Index
