Innovative Teacher Training

Jonna Kangas is a Senior University Lecturer and Adjunct Professor of Early Childhood Education and works as a Director of the Blended Teacher Training program and joint research member in the Playful Learning Center, Faculty of Education Science, University of Helsinki, Finland. Heidi Harju-Luukkainen is a Professor of Education at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, and serves as Director of the education unit and Vice Director of the University Consortium. She is also Professor of Education at Nord University, Norway, and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Southern Cross, Australia. She has held academic positions in six countries, published over 300 scholarly works, and led more than 40 international projects.Natallia Bahdanovich Hanssen is a Professor in Special Needs Education at the Faculty of Education and Arts at Nord University in Bodø, Norway. She is a leader of the research group Special Needs Education and Speech Therapy: SKILL.

• 1. Introduction to Innovation in Teacher Education 2. Current Challenges for Innovations in Teacher Education 3. Innovations in Australian Early Childhood Teacher Education 4. The Role of Surprise in Kindergarten Teacher Education: The Approach of "Artoo – Art as Told by Children” 5. Supporting Mutual Professional Development of Pre-service and In-service Teachers through Innovative Co-teaching Approaches 6. Inclusion of the Concept of Trauma-Informed Care in Education as an Innovative Component of the Primary School Teacher Training Curriculum in Ukraine 7. Master’s Thesis Supervision for Educational Innovation 8. Making a Theory a Lived Theory: Challenges in Early Mathematics Education 9. Students as Co-Creators of Reflective Practice: The Reflective Pair Model in Blended Teacher Training Program in Finland 10. Reimagining Teacher Expertise: Finnish Student Teachers’ Visions for Future-Ready Education 11. Science of Education Within Participatory Model of Knowledge Development: A Case from Slovenia 12. ‘Is This Critical Enough?’ A Self-Study of The Role of Teacher Educator 13. The Master's Thesis in Primary Teacher Education: Innovation and Capacity Building 14. Empowerment to Participatory Pedagogy: Fostering Participatory Pedagogy Through an In-Service Training Program in Moroccan ECE 15. Teacher Education Staff’s Experiences with Blended Learning in Early Childhood Teacher Education Programs in Finland 16. Is Teaching for Critical Thinking a New Educational Pathway for Vocational Teachers? 17. Collaborative Dialogic Reflection as a Tool for Developing Pedagogical Reasoning in Pre-service Teacher Education 18. Teacher Educators’ Agency and Student Teachers in Co-Creation in the Context of a Systemic Initiative Developing Teacher Education Through Professional Inquiry 19. Horizons of Possibility: Innovation as a Living Practice