Table of Contents

Introduction Section One: Internationalization of Teacher Education and the Nation State 1 The national discourse in teacher education 2 Unsustainability of an overly national discourse in teacher education 3 Reforming teacher education in the twenty-first century Section Two: Internationalization of Teacher Education in Singapore 4 Education and teacher education in Singapore as a high-performing school system 5 Imperatives driving the internationalization of teacher education in Singapore 6 Forms of localization-internationalization in Singapore’s teacher education 7 Barriers and risks in the internationalization of teacher education Section Three: Rethinking Nationalization in Singapore and Beyond 8 Nurturing international-minded teachers for national interest 9 Creating a new narrative in the nationalization of teacher education

About the Author

Rita Zamzamah Nazeer-Ikeda (Ph.D.) is an assistant professor at Mejiro University (Tokyo, Japan). She is also a visiting research fellow at Waseda University’s Center for the Study of International Cooperation in Education (Tokyo, Japan). She has dedicated many years to international human development work through education, research and consulting in Singapore, Japan and Indonesia.