Challenges and Quality of Teacher Education

The success of a student depends most of all on the quality of the teacher. With the advent of standard-based reforms, the quality of teachers has become a major concern of policy-makers, college and university presidents, especially at the colleges of teacher education, and the public in general. Every child deserves a quality teacher. In an era of increasing standards and accountability in education, teacher quality and teacher training will be more important than ever. This book aims at making contributions to the ongoing debates in the challenges and quality of teacher education and, the creation of a new knowledge base that can serve all endeavours at different levels for teacher quality and development in different parts of the world. In facing up to the numerous challenges to teacher education in the era of digital technology and globalisation, this book will facilitate the quest for new teacher education for the future. The target audiences are teacher educators, educators, graduate students, researchers, policy-makers and those interested to reform teacher education for the future.