Quality and Change in Teacher Education: Western and Chinese Perspectives

1. Western and Chinese perspectives on quality and change in teacher education. John Chi-Kin Lee and Christopher Day.- 2. Teachers and the quality of education: Why resilience counts most in testing times. Christopher Day.- Section One: Quality in teacher education.- 3. Teacher education in the Greater China region: Status, issues and prospects. John Chi-Kin Lee and Huan Song.- 4. Status and quality of teacher education in the US: Neoliberal and professional tensions. Robert V. Bullough, Jr.- 5. What is high quality teacher education? David Imig, Donna L. Wiseman, Angela Wiseman and Scott R. Imig.- 6. Quality initial teacher education policy and practice in Australia and England: Past, present and possible futures. Anne Jasman.- 7. The need for stakeholder alignment on the future of teacher education in Australia. Brian J. Caldwell.- Section Two: Innovative and effective curriculum, teaching and assessment practices of teacher education.- 8. Different modes of field experience in teacher education programmes. May May-Hung Cheng and John Chi-Kin Lee.- 9. Initial teacher education curriculum and assessment of graduates in Australia. Diane Mayer, Andrea Allard, Julianne Moss and Mary Dixon.- 10. E-portfolio in pre-service teacher education: Sustainability and lifelong learning. Cher Ping Lim, John Chi-Kin Lee and Nan Jia.- 11. Preservice teachers' reflective Journaling: A way to know culture. Cheryl J. Craig, Yali Zou and Gayle Curtis.- 12. Internationalization in teacher education in the US: Innovative programs and practices to meet the global challenges of tomorrow's school. Reyes L. Quezada and Paula A. Cordeiro.- Section Three : Issues of managing change in teacher education.- 13. The idea of the normal university and the University of Education: Implications for a Confucian pedagogy. Ruth Hayhoe.- 14. Connecting higher education and schools: Partnership for capacity building and school improvement in England. Qing Gu.- 15. Accountability, standards and activism: A challenge or opportunity for teacher education. Judyth Sachs.- 16. Understanding professional knowledge of teaching and its importance to scholarship in teacher education. John Loughran.- 17. Quality teaching as a moral practice: Cultivating practical wisdom. Deborah L. Schussler and Peter C. Murrell, Jr.- 18. Teacher education, students with diverse needs and social-emotional education. Paul Cooper.- 19. Teacher education between two worlds: Past and future. Miriam Ben-Peretz and Tali Aderet-German.n>