Paper in symposium: ‘International Perspectives on the Professional Development of Teacher Educators in Contemporary University Contexts’. Presented at the Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Philadelphia, USA. In this paper we examine the development of the professional …

Economische en maatschappelijke ontwikkelingen vragen om een kwaliteitsverbetering van het onderwijs en om dat te bewerkstelligen hebben lerarenopleidingen binnen de hogescholen een onderzoekstaak gekregen. Voor een succesvolle implementatie van de onderzoekstaak lijkt professionalisering van lerarenopleiders …

Duitstalige publicatie van Anja Swennen (VU) en Marco Snoek in een themanummer van het Oostenrijkse Journal für Lehrerinnen- und Lehrerbilding over het beroep van lerarenopleider, het belang van de ontwikkeling van een beroepsidentiteit voor lerarenopleiders en een schets van recente Europese beleidsontwikkelingen …

Introduction and theoretical background In the past few years, there has been a growing interest in the specific position of beginning teacher educators. In the book 'Becoming a teacher Educator' (Swennen & Van der Klink, 2009) several chapters deal with this subject. In conclusion, teacher educators …

This study examines how the contemporary European policy debate addresses the further development of the quality of teacher educators. A classification framework based on the literature on professionalism was used to compare European and Member State policy actions and measures on the quality of teacher …

Recent studies have identified that the teacher is the most important factor influencing the quality of education. Following this line of reasoning, it is likely to assume that the teacher educator is the most important factor influencing the quality of teacher education. Although many research studies …

Teachers in Europe are educated in a wide variety of institutes and by a wide range of curriculum models. The main aim of teacher education is the same throughout Europe – the education of teachers – but the underlying ideas and the contexts differ, leading to significant differences between teacher education …