Recruiting and Educating the Best Teachers : Policy, Professionalism and Pedagogy

What does the best teacher education program look like? How should we look at the area of attracting the best teachers at teacher education program and at the schools? How should we look at the area of recruitment into teacher education at different stages of a teacher’s career and into the teaching profession? This book answers these questions, demonstrating that policy, professionalism, and pedagogy are integral to the development of the best teachers that our students deserve. The empirical quantitative and qualitative studies and narratives presented in this volume show that strong analyses are needed to drive decisions on policy and practice.

Contributors are: Tania Alonso-Sainz, Satya Samhita Balanagu, Aimie Brennan, Angela Canny, Bee Leng Chua, Stefanie Yen Leng Chye, Kurt Clausen, Melanie Ní Dhuinn, Reina Ferrández-Berrueco, Maria Assunção Flores, Marilde Queiroz Guedes, Rosalyn Hyde, Tandeep Kaur, Mary Knight, Jennifer Liston, Erika Löfström, Ee Ling Low, Joanna Madalinska-Michalak, Suzanne O’Keeffe, Diana Petrarca, Mark Prendergast, Lucía Sánchez-Tarazaga, Paola Sangster, Bianca Thoilliez, Luís Tinoca and Shirley Van Nuland.

Joanna Madalinska-Michalak, Ph.D. (2002), is a Full Professor at University of Warsaw, Poland, and Honorary Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark. She serves as an expert for European Commission – Jean Monnet programme. She is a past Chair of TEPE Network (2016–2020). She has published extensively on teacher education, teacher professional development, and leadership.

Maria Assunção Flores, Ph.D. (2002), works at the University of Minho, Portugal. She is Director of the Research Centre on Child Studies and co-editor of the European Journal of Teacher Education. She has published extensively on the topics of teacher education, teacher professional development, leadership, curriculum, assessment and higher education.

Ee Ling Low, Ph.D. (1998), University of Cambridge, UK, is Dean, Academic and Faculty Affairs and the immediate past Dean, Teacher Education at the National Institute of Education (NIE), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. She is an internationally renowned expert in Teacher Education and World Englishes.

Shirley Van Nuland, Ph.D. (1998), University of Toronto, Canada, is an Adjunct Professor and past Associate Professor and Academic Lead at the Faculty of Education, University of Ontario Institute of Technology. She researches teacher education, standards and ethical codes as these intersect lives of teachers.