Proposes the need for a scholarship on teacher education that emphasizes the unequal power relations between dominant Anglo research and policy establishment and the diverse, often disempowered communities being studied, suggesting the utility of key constructs like additive schooling and culturally relevant pedagogy to guide a refashioning of…

Addresses tensions over what kind of research best serves teacher education, showing how formal conceptions of large scale social science research might be compatibly situated within a larger frame of research that also recognizes certain varieties of interpretive and narrative research and arguing that the policy making enterprise may justifiably…

Reminisces about several decades of research on teaching and teacher education, explaining that for teacher education research to make a significant difference, there must be new scholarly commitments, with long-term programs of scholarship, regularly embedded in ongoing programs of teacher preparation, becoming a norm, and ties to student…

In improving urban public schools, the urgency of demands placed on research should not be allowed to reduce the complexity of answers to the problem. Heeding the call for complexity and examining areas not currently studied (e.g., implications of race, class, and gender) are key to generating research on teacher education that will be useful to…

Modern teaching and teacher education "magically" transform sciences, social sciences, and humanities. The alchemy of school subjects provides a way to think about frames of reference organizing inquiry and constitutes evidence in teacher education, also obscuring the normalizing and dividing practices of teaching (including reformulating…

Highlights recent experiences editing an educational research journal, noting problems in teacher education research and lessons learned. The paper offers a new way of examining inquiry, locating it in the social realm as a cultural and political practice, and suggesting a situated look at questions about research that might inform the community…

Introduces a collection of papers that resulted from a 3- year project on scenarios for the future of teacher education in Europe. The first part of the issue introduces scenarios and describes the scenario model developed at a conference. The second part analyzes curriculum developments in different countries, using the scenario model as an…

Asserts that scenarios are powerful tools for creating new perspectives on the future of teacher education, and for stimulating reflection, creativity, and imagination. Scenarios can be helpful both for deciding on institutional or (inter)national policies on teacher education and for facilitating individual learning processes of teacher educators…

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…

Examines recent developments in European Union educational policy, highlighting a 2001 document of the Education Council. Evaluates the document's intentions and directions from a pedagogical viewpoint and assesses the document using the Association for Teacher Education in Europe's scenario framework. Shows that future European Union education…

Examines changes in England's teacher education over the past 30 years, identifying key changes and relating them to the Association for Teacher Education in Europe's axes of idealism/pragmatism and individualism/social cohesion. These changes are also seen in the contexts of changes made in school and university education. Extracts from political…

Reviews the development of teacher education in Portugal since the 1974 revolution, which brought the country to democracy. Using the Association for Teacher Education in Europe's scenario model, the paper describes the hidden philosophies underlying changes that are occurring and shows how teacher education has evolved from a romantic, idealistic…

Applies the concepts of idealism, individualism, and pragmatism from the Association for Teacher Education in Europe's scenario model to Germany's teacher education. Discusses the current German teacher training system's scholarly approach to idealism; notes organizational problems; examines the special psychological demands on students made by…

Discusses teacher education in Poland in relation to current ongoing reform of the educational system and looks at issues resulting from the political transformation that has occurred. The article identifies in which of the four quadrants of the scenario model (individualism, pragmatism, idealism, and social cohesion) the current Polish education…