Presents four scenarios that illustrate possible futures of teacher education in Europe. The scenarios differ in their emphasis on four driving forces: pragmatism, idealism, individualism, and social coherence. Each scenario is described in terms of characteristics of society, education/teacher education, and teacher/teacher educator roles and is…

Critiques a two-dimensional model for identifying scenarios of future development of education, describing the concepts of "dimension" in mathematics of space and "opposite" in logic. Asserts the model does not deal with dimensions and has no opposites between the end points of the model's two "dimensions" and concludes that the model is useful as…

Describes how Sweden's teacher education has developed historically and how development of schools and teacher education links to political, social, and economic development; discussing current teacher education reform in relation to its history and contemporary social/political change; and concluding that patterns of teacher education in one…