Making Sense of European Teacher Induction and Mentoring Practices

This book introduces research on induction and mentoring practices across Europe, emphasizing new teachers as active, reflective professionals within educational ecosystems where mentoring is developed as a connected, evolving whole.

Michelle Helms-Lorenz is currently an Adjunct Professor of Educational Sciences and a member of the management team of the Teacher Education department at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands). Her research interests involve teaching skillfulness, the conceptualization of teaching quality, student perceptions of teaching quality, the motivation and wellbeing of beginning- and pre-service teachers and the effectiveness of interventions to promote professional development and retention.

Hannu L. T. Heikkinen is a professor at the Finnish Institute for Educational Research at the University of Jyväskylä. He has studied professional development among teachers, focusing particularly on research on teacher induction since the 1990s. He has been actively involved in various international networks, for example, serving as a long-term convenor of the EERA Network on Professional Learning and Development and as one of the founding members of the Ecologies of Teacher Induction and Mentoring in Europe (TIME) network.

Helle Plauborg works as an associate professor at the Danish School of Education at Aarhus University, Denmark. She is head of the research program “Teachers and Teaching: Teacher Education, Practice, Professional Development” and member of the research networks TEPE (Teacher Education Policy in Europe) and TIME (ecologies of Teacher Induction and Mentoring in Europe). She is currently leading a research project exploring why teachers stay in the profession.

Eva Bjerkholt, professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway, leader of the Norwegian network on Mentoring Newly Qualified Teachers and the Nordic cross-sectoral network, NTI: Nordic Teacher Induction. Research leader of STEP: Partnership for Sustainable Transition from Teacher Education to Profession. Becoming a professional teacher. Research field: Teacher education, induction, mentoring and mentoring training.