In facing up to the numerous challenges to education in a new era of information technology and globalization, this book of 19 chapters 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 in educational reform and teacher education for the new century. The chapters, grouped into three sections - `New Perspectives in Teacher Education and Development', `Reform and Development of Teacher Education', and `Innovation and Reflection on Teacher Education Practice' - are prepared by renowned scholars and researchers from different parts of the world. Cutting across these chapters with international perspectives for an international audience are some very fundamental issues, development trends, reform initiatives, innovative practices, and critical reflection with research and reform implications. They are essential to all efforts to develop a new teacher education in the new millennium.

In facing the challenges of rapid globalization, IT intensification, international competition and local demands for developments, educators, scholars and leaders in the Asia-Pacific region and other parts of the world are concerned with reforms of teacher education for the future of education in the new millennium. This edited volume aims to provide a global sharing of the major trends and characteristics of the ongoing teacher education reforms in this region and the major challenges and issues raised in policy formulation and reform implementation.

With a total of 14 chapters prepared by 18 scholars from nine educational systems a" Australia, Canada, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, and United States a" in the Asia-Pacific region, the book highlights the trends and challenges in the reform of teacher education in the region generally and in eight educational systems in particular. Most chapters directly or indirectly address the latest issues of teacher education and development at operational, site, and macro levels from a national or regional perspective.

This volume is of interest to teachers, teacher educators, researchers, policymakers, and other stakeholders in all developed and developing countries.

In facing the challenges of rapid globalization, IT intensification, international competition and local demands for developments, educators, scholars and leaders in the Asia-Pacific region and other parts of the world are concerned with reforms of teacher education for the future of education in the new millennium. This edited volume aims to provide a global sharing of the major trends and characteristics of the ongoing teacher education reforms in this region and the major challenges and issues raised in policy formulation and reform implementation.

With a total of 14 chapters prepared by 18 scholars from nine educational systems Australia, Canada, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, and United States in the Asia-Pacific region, the book highlights the trends and challenges in the reform of teacher education in the region generally and in eight educational systems in particular. Most chapters directly or indirectly address the latest issues of teacher education and development at operational, site, and macro levels from a national or regional perspective.

This volume is of interest to teachers, teacher educators, researchers, policymakers, and other stakeholders in all developed and developing countries. "

In facing up to the numerous challenges to education in a new era of information technology and globalization, this book of 19 chapters 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 in educational reform and teacher education for the new century. The chapters, grouped into three sections - `New Perspectives in Teacher Education and Development', `Reform and Development of Teacher Education', and `Innovation and Reflection on Teacher Education Practice' - are prepared by renowned scholars and researchers from different parts of the world. Cutting across these chapters with international perspectives for an international audience are some very fundamental issues, development trends, reform initiatives, innovative practices, and critical reflection with research and reform implications. They are essential to all efforts to develop a new teacher education in the new millennium.

This 544-page book has 22 chapters prepared by experienced and renowned scholars and researchers from different parts of the world. Grouped into three sections- "Information Technology, Science and Mathematics," "Social Sciences and General Studies," and "Languages" - the chapters represent an important collection of international endeavours committed to facilitate the much needed paradigm shift in subject curriculum and pedagogy and reinforce the quest for a new knowledge base that can support the search for new conceptions, models, perspectives, innovations, and practices for teaching effectiveness and teacher development in different parts of the world. The target audiences are teacher educators, educators, graduate students, researchers, policy makers and those interested to reform education and teacher education in the new century.