Marta Kowalczuk-Walędziak

Wioleta Danilewicz

Alicja Korzeniecka-Bondar

Gracienne Lauwers

This book focuses on current trends, potential challenges, and further developments in teacher education and professional development from theoretical, empirical, and practical points of view. It provides fresh insights and examples of best practices from all over the world on the strengths and limitations of different approaches and policies.

Trends, Challenges and New Directions

Rethinking Teacher Education for the 21st Century

Ian Menter

Roza A. Valeeva

Marija Sablić

This handbook provides a comprehensive, scholarly overview of teacher education in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), since the fall of communism in 1989. It looks closely at recent trends, emerging practices, and possible futures for teacher education in twenty-one CEE countries – reaching from the Balkans, through the Visegrad Group, to Eastern Europe and the Baltics. The contributing authors reflect on their own countries’ uphill battles and journeys towards modernising teacher education over the last three decades. Subsequently, contemporary teacher education policies, structures, and practices are explored in light of Bologna reforms, EU higher education policies, and globalisation processes. Each chapter also offers some predictions about likely future trajectories – with concrete suggestions on how to develop and improve teacher education systems in response to the growing pressures of neoliberal ideologies. The Palgrave Handbook of Teacher Education in Central and Eastern Europe provides a valuable reference that enriches the work of scholars, students, policymakers, and practitioners across CEE and beyond.

The Palgrave Handbook of Teacher Education in Central and Eastern Europe

Gracienne Maria Louisa Veronica Lauwers

This book focuses on current trends, potential challenges and further developments of teacher education and professional development from a theoretical, empirical and practical point of view. It intends to provide valuable and fresh insights from research studies and examples of best practices from Europe and all over the world. The authors deal with the strengths and limitations of different models, strategies, approaches and policies related to teacher education and professional development in and for changing times (digitization, multiculturalism, pressure to perform).

Marta Kowalczuk-Walędziak

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