Introduction: Policy, teacher education and the quality of teachers and teaching

Christopher Day

1. Empathy, teaching dispositions, social justice and teacher education

Robert V. Bullough Jr

2. Pedagogical reasoning: the foundation of the professional knowledge of teaching

John Loughran

3. Teacher candidate learning of action-oriented knowledge from triggering incidents in teaching practice

Auli Toom, Mikko Tiilikainen, Lauri Heikonen, Äli Leijen, Juanjo Mena and Jukka Husu

4. Teachers and teaching in China: a critical reflection

Leslie N.K. Lo

5. The Universities and initial teacher education; challenging the discourse of derision. The case of Wales

John Furlong

6. Changing policy contexts and teachers´ work-life narratives: the case of Estonian vocational teachers

Ivor F. Goodson and Meril Ümarik

7. Teacher collaboration: 30 years of research on its nature, forms, limitations and effects

Andy Hargreaves

About the Author

Christopher Day is Professor of Education and Member of the Centre for Research on Educational Leadership and Management (CRELM), University of Nottingham, UK. He is also Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Sydney, Australia, and Chair Professor of Educational Leadership at Beijing Normal University, China.

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