Preparing Teachers for the 21st Century

Part I Teacher Preparation and Teacher Quality 1.Two visions of teaching and teacher education for the 21st century.- 2. Teacher Quality in the Twenty-First Century: New Lives, Old Truths.- 3.The Continuing "Problem" of Teacher Education: Policy Driven Reforms and the Role of Teacher Educator.- 4."Evidence-based Teaching, Evidence-based Teacher Education".- 5.Practices, experience and policy orientation for Free Education in normal universities in China.- Part II Preparing Teachers and Teacher Educators Globally and Locally 1.Discussion of the reconstruction of rural teacher training configuration in China.- 2.Mary Lynn Hamilton and Stefinee Pinnegar, The International Terrain of Teaching and Teacher Education: How can teacher educators prepare teachers for a world we cannot envision?.- 3.Exploring the Interaction of Global and Local in Teacher Education: Circulating Notions of What Preparing a Good Teacher Entails.- 4.Preparing 21st century teacher-researchers for worldly intellectual interactions ... East/West, South/North, East/South: Uses of Chinese theoretical tools in Australian teacher education.- 5.Teacher Education in Hong Kong: Status, Contemporary Issues and prospects.- 6.Preparing Teacher Educators in US Doctoral Programs.- 7.Research on the Impact of Chinese Teacher Educational Reform on Teacher Candidates' Quality after 1999.- Part III Professional Development 1. Future of Teaching and Educational Change.- 2.Learning to Teach Against the Institutional Grain: A Professional Development Model for Teacher Empowerment.- 3.Teacher Education: A question of sustaining teachers.- 4.Professional learning as a moral drive from critical discourse.- Part IV Social and Cultural Perspectives of Teacher Education 1.Social Justice and Teacher Education: Where Do We Stand?.- 2.Gery Smyth, Who are the teachers and who are the learners? Teacher education for culturally responsive pedagogy.- 3.Ninetta Santoro, The making of teachers for the Twenty-firstCentury: Australian