International Perspectives on Teacher Education

Tony Townsend is Professor of Public Service, Educational Leadership and Management at the University of Glasgow, UK. He previously worked at Florida Atlantic University, USA, and Monash University, Australia, and has been president of both the International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement and the International Council on Education for Teaching. Professor Townsend has worked with educators in more than 60 countries and has been visiting professor in Canada, South Africa, Macau, the Republic of Ireland, Czech Republic and Malaysia. In 2005 he was the Australian Council for Educational Leaders’ Travelling Scholar. He has written or edited 11 books and published more than 100 articles or chapters in the areas of school effectiveness and improvement, leadership, community education, policy development and school improvement.

• 1. Teacher education: an international perspective Tony Townsend 2. Education of teachers: the English experience John MacBeath 3. Teacher education reform in Scotland: national and global influences Ian Menter and Moira Hulme 4. Teacher education in the United States of America, 2011 David Imig, Donna Wiseman and Scott Imig 5. Teacher education in Canada Shirley Van Nuland 6. Australian teacher education reforms: reinforcing the problem or providing a solution? James O’Meara 7. Teacher education in New Zealand Fiona Ell 8. Teacher education reform and challenges in Norway Elaine Munthe, Kari-Anne Svensen Malmo and Magne Rogne 9. Teacher training in France in the early 2010s Guy Lapostolle and Thierry Chevaillier 10. Curriculum of initial teacher education in Portugal: new contexts, old Problems Maria Assunção Flores 11. National and local sources of power: important considerations for teacher education reforms in rural Malawi Jacqueline Chazema and James O’Meara 12. Searching high and searching low, searching east and searching west: looking for trust in teacher education Tony Townsend