One important group of people living a special lifestyle in Mongolia is mobile pastoralists. Requirements from the government of Mongolia push pastoralist parents to send their children to schools in settled areas far from their camps. This interpretative phenomenological study explored primary school classroom teachers' experiences in…

In this paper we review the professional learning and development (PLD) needs of teachers in rural and remote schools, focusing on the Australian context. We argue that online PLD is an emerging alternative to face-to-face arrangements for the continuing education of teachers, which can connect to rural contexts through attending to considerations…

Teacher education in the time of the COVID is unpredictable indeed. Fifty years ago, a major political overhaul of initial teacher education removed control from state education departments and began the transition of ITE to a university discipline. This led to the emergence of the teacher education professional, and the need for an association…

This article reports on a case study of Miho, a Japanese high school teacher, exploring her efforts to bridge research and practice in her use of motivational strategies. Drawing on Emirbayer and Mische's conceptualisation of agency and Connelly and Clandinin's theorisation on teachers' personal knowledge, the study examined how this language…

During the turbulent 2018-19 school year, we researched Hong Kong teachers' perceptions regarding the design and implementation of National Education in schools for students aged 12-17. We seek to make a contribution to understandings of aspects of the cultural, political and social dimensions and contexts relevant to teacher education. 41 civic…

In recent decades, Israeli teacher education colleges underwent an academisation reform, and teacher educators were required to show research productivity. Teacher education colleges formed research units in order to nurture a culture of research and help teacher educators become research active. The current study analyses research unit members'…

Sociologists of education have shown that schooling tends to favour the most powerful groups and that even well-intentioned researchers can run the risk of perpetuating some of the very power structures we seek to critique. In this paper we explore how a male, Brahmin researcher from Nepal (the highest caste group in Nepalese society) attempted to…

China's education system faces a loss of teachers and a decline in education quality, and the new fertility policy means that the demand for teachers will increase. Against this background, the motivations and perceptions of pre-service teachers (N= 2618) were investigated. The Factors Influencing Teaching Choice instrument was used, and its…

The role of research in teacher education is a widely discussed topic by policymakers as well as by researchers and practitioners. At the policy level, there seems to be a general claim that teacher education shall be research based (OECD, 2005; European Commission, 2013; Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture, 2021; Norwegian Ministry of…

This study explores the experiences and perceptions of 13 Australian early childhood, primary and secondary pre-service teachers who undertook a two-week international service-learning immersion in an educational setting in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Qualitative data were collected pre-immersion through an anonymous questionnaire, and post-immersion…

This contribution explicitly responds to Agenda No. 5 of the eight challenges posed by the journal editors, which focuses on politics and practice of language learning and teaching. This agenda deserves specific attention in teacher education research because language is a strong indicator of people's identity.

Enhanced metacognition among students is imperative for the optimum completion of academic tasks. Therefore, empowering teachers to mediate and teach metacognitive skills is of enormous importance. This study explores the implementation of a workshop designed teacher mediation method by focussing on the patterns of teacher-student interactions and…

This study investigated 77 Taiwanese pre-service primary teachers' beliefs, knowledge and emotions about mathematics teaching and learning by using a drawing task: specifically, creating pictures of themselves as mathematics teachers at work. Its major findings were: (1) The majority of the participants chose to illustrate a mix of teacher- and…

Teachers' professional identities, or the professional images teachers have of themselves, play an essential role in teachers' pedagogical knowledge and their propensity to stay in the profession. Even though with a shared recognition of the importance of professional identities among teachers, research is limited in terms of examining preservice…

In this historical piece, Bob Teasdale, who was the Editor when the journal was known as the "South Pacific Journal of Teacher Education" (1975-1980) and who also served as President of the journal's professional organisation then known as the "South Pacific Association for Teacher Education" (1980-1981), details the early…