Professional learning in education : challenges for teacher educators, teachers and student teachers / Bram De Wever, Ruben Vanderlinde, Melissa Tuytens, and Antonia Aelterman (eds.).

Includes bibliographical references.

Professional learning of teacher educators, teachers, and student teachers: an introduction / Ruben Vanderlinde, Melissa Tuytens, Bram De Wever, and Antonia Aelterman -- Policy driven reforms and the role of teacher educators in professionalising teacher education / Diane Mayer -- Teacher educators' professional learning: a necessary case of 'on your own'? / Amanda Berry -- Professional development for teacher educators in the communal context: factors which promote and hinder learning / Linor L. Hadar and David L. Brody -- Commitment crises: voices of secondary teachers / Odile de Comarmond, Jane Abbiss, and Susan Lovett -- Conditions for teacher leadership and professional development in challenging circumstances / Maria Assunção Flores, Eva Fernandes, Manuel Flores, and Ana Forte -- An empirical typology of student teachers and its relation with motivation for teaching / Isabel Rots and Antonia Aelterman -- Analysing plots of student teachers' narratives to identify teacher identity: a rhetorical approach / Ietje Pauw, Wenckje Jongstra, and Peter van Lint -- Inclusive classroom practices in secondary schools: towards a universal teaching approach / Annet De Vroey, Katrien Roelandts, Elke Struyf, and Katja Petry -- Effects of the structural and curricular changes following the Bologna process in Germany on the content knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge of student teachers of business and economics / Roland Happ, Christiane Kuhn, and Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia.

"This book presents a model for teachers' professional development together with the three central themes: (1) professionalism of teacher educators, (2) professional development of (student) teachers, and (3) (student) teacher practices. The different chapters of this book discuss these themes in detail and originated from an open call launched at the ISATT 2013 conference that was organized around the central theme of 'Excellence of teachers?'. Urgent issues that address practitioners, teacher educators, and researchers are discussed throughout the chapters and general research challenges for teacher education researchers are put forward in the epilogue of this book." --back cover.