Innovative Teacher Training

In a time of rapid educational change, Innovative Teacher Training delivers a bold and accessible roadmap for reimagining teacher education. From pre-service and in-service training to vocational education, it blends global perspectives with actionable strategies to tackle societal, technological, and pedagogical challenges.

Spanning international contexts, the book showcases fresh and meaningful ways to improve teacher education while prioritizing socio-emotional well-being, interdisciplinary collaboration, and reflective practice. It provides grounded examples of co-teaching models, trauma-informed care, blended learning, participatory pedagogies, and research-based supervision, alongside solutions to systemic issues like teacher shortages, curriculum reforms, and digital integration. Organized into four thematic sections, it explores the current landscape of teacher training, advancements in vocational and primary education, insights from early childhood education, and lessons from student perspectives.

Essential for teachers, educators, researchers, policymakers, and institutional leaders, this book offers a rich blend of case studies, theoretical insights, and practical models. It empowers readers to rethink teacher education as a dynamic, collaborative process and provides the tools to build inclusive, future-ready systems in a rapidly evolving world.

Jonna Kangas is a Senior University Lecturer and Adjunct Professor of Early Childhood Education and works as a Director of the Blended Teacher Training program and joint research member in the Playful Learning Center, Faculty of Education Science, University of Helsinki, Finland.

Heidi Harju-Luukkainen is a Professor of Education at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, and serves as Director of the education unit and Vice Director of the University Consortium. She is also Professor of Education at Nord University, Norway, and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Southern Cross, Australia. She has held academic positions in six countries, published over 300 scholarly works, and led more than 40 international projects.

Natallia Bahdanovich Hanssen is a Professor in Special Needs Education at the Faculty of Education and Arts at Nord University in Bodø, Norway. She is a leader of the research group Special Needs Education and Speech Therapy: SKILL.