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Encyclopedia of Teacher Education

  • Living reference work
  • © 2020

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Editors:
  1. Michael A. Peters

    1. Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

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  • Provides a dynamic and living reference to all aspects of teacher education
  • Collects leading international scholars representing a variety of different cultures and traditions
  • Examines current research, models and approaches to teacher education

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Table of contents (434 entries)

  1. Chinese Teacher Rotation Policy

    • Lijia Wang, Wei Shen, Taisheng CAO

  2. Classroom Behavior Management in the Pacific, Developing an Approach to Create Meaningful Shifts in Teacher Thinking

    • Angela Page

  3. Codes of Professional Ethics and Conduct in Teaching

    • Daniella J. Forster

  4. Common Values in Higher Education, Searching for

    • Sisi Wang, Ora Kwo

  5. Communal Knowledge in Teacher Education

    • Katherina A. Payne

  6. Community Involvement in STEM Education

    • Paula Mildenhall

  7. Comparative Education and Training of International Baccalaureate Teachers

    • Thomas F. Luschei, Amoreena Castañeda

  8. Comparative Education as Learning New Ways of Seeing

    • James H. Williams

  9. Competence-Orientation in Teaching Physical Education

    • Sandra Heck, Claude Scheuer

  10. Competition as a Pedagogical Tool to Develop Confidence, Competence, and Enjoyment in Primary Physical Education Lessons

    • Neil Castle

  11. Complex Instruction in Mathematics Teacher Preparation

    • Sandra Crespo

  12. Comprehensive Competencies for Infant/Toddler Educators

    • Claire Vallotton, Carla Peterson, Rachel Chazan Cohen, Gina Cook, Holly Brophy Herb, Jean Ispa

  13. Comprehensive Peace Education

    • Tony Jenkins

  14. Conditions That Enable and Constrain Student Voice(s) in Schools

    • Dana Mitra, Jerusha Conner, Samantha Holquist

  15. Confucianism and Pedagogies in Teacher Education

    • Mary K. Chang

  16. Confucius and the Relevance of Confucian Philosophy to Contemporary Debates About Teaching

    • Shu Fun Fung, Janet Orchard

  17. Connecting Research, Policy, and Practice to Promote Inclusive Education

    • Amanda Watkins, Verity Donnelly

  18. Contemporary Methodological Approaches of Teacher Education Balanced Against the Perspective of the Design and Innovation

    • José Penalva

  19. Contemporary Teacher of Primary Physical Education

    • Matthew Fleet, Grant Huddleston

  20. Content Knowledge for Teaching in Teacher Education

    • Drew H. Gitomer
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About this book

This encyclopaedia is a dynamic and living reference that student teachers, teacher educators, researchers and professionals in the field of education with an accent on all aspects of teacher education, including: teaching practice; initial teacher education; teacher induction; teacher development; professional learning; teacher education policies; quality assurance; professional knowledge, standards and organisations; teacher ethics; and research on teacher education, among other issues. The Encyclopedia is an authoritative work by a collective of leading world scholars representing different cultures and traditions, the global policy convergence and counter-practices relating to the teacher education profession. The accent will be equally on teaching practice and practitioner knowledge, skills and understanding as well as current research, models and approaches to teacher education.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

    Michael A. Peters

About the editor

Michael A. Peters was educated at Johnsonville Primary School and Onslow College before attending Victoria University of Wellington on a government studentship to become a teacher, completing  a Batchelor degree majoring in Geography and English and an Honour degree in Geography. He attended Christchurch Teachers’ College in 1972 graduating with a Teachers’ Diploma and Certificate with Distinction. He taught senior Geography and English for five years at Linwood High School before taking a position as head of Geography and Liberal Studies at Long Bay College. While at Linwood Michael completed a BSc in Philosophy of Science.  In 1979 he enrolled at Auckland University in an MA in the Philosophy Department, gaining a First Class Honours degree and winning a PhD Scholarship. He completed my PhD in Philosophy of Education in 1984 focusing on the philosophy of Wittgenstein. In the seven years following Michael worked as a research consultant for a range of government departmentswhile also holding positions as a tutor at Auckland University and Auckland Polytechnic, and part-time lecturer at the Auckland College of Education. In 1990 He was appointed Lecturer in Education at the University of Canterbury, returning to Auckland University in 1992 as Senior Lecturer and soon after he was appointed as an Associated Professor. Michael was awarded a Personal Chair in 2000 and held this position concurrent with a position as Research Professor at the Faculty of Education in the University of Glasgow for five years. In 2005 he was appointed as an Excellence Hire Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and made Emeritus Professor after leaving to take up a position of Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Waikato in 2011. Michael has been the executive editor of Educational Philosophy and Theory, and founding editor of five international journals, including The Video Journal of Education and Pedagogy (Springer), Open Review of Educational Research (T&F). His research and teaching interests are in the philosophy of education where he have developed the notion of philosophy-as-pedagogy and pedagogical philosophy, and the political economy of education. Michael has been a teacher for some fifty years and supervised and examined over 50 PhD students. He has written and edited some eighty books, including most recently: Companion to Wittgenstein and Education: Pedagogical Investigations, (ed. 2017) with Jeff Stickney, Companion to Research in Teacher Education (ed. 2017) with Bronwen Cowen and Ian Mentor, Paulo Freire: The Global Legacy (ed. 2015) with Tina Besley. His books have been translated into ten languages. He has acted as an educational advisor to governments and UNESCO in the USA (NSF), Scotland, NZ, South Africa and the EU. He was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of NZ in 2010 and awarded honorary doctorates by State University of New York (SUNY) in 2012 and University of Aalborg in 2015. 

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