There has been an increasing trend to promote partnerships for inclusive education that
share responsibility for teachers' and students' learning. Yet, the complexities of …

University teacher education programs are the “foremost settings for learning how to
teach”(Smagorinsky et al., 2003). Yet, how to prepare preservice teachers to teach writing …

Using the method of qualitative metasynthesis, this study analyzes 49 qualitative studies to
interrogate how high-stakes testing affects curriculum, defined here as embodying content …

In this chapter, I explore poverty as an outside-of-school factor and its influence on the inside-
of-school experiences and outcome of students. I consider the interconnected space of …

Student teaching is a cornerstone of teacher preparation, yet it remains one of the most
difficult experiences to understand. Calls for an ecological approach to research on student …

This article analyzes how Sharon, a student teacher, negotiated the different conceptions of
teaching that provided the expectations for good instruction in her university and the site of …

This paper examines the evolution of the professional identities of student teachers (STs) in
a paired-placement teaching practicum in Vietnam. The study draws on activity theory, its …

Co-Published by Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group and the Association of Teacher
Educators. The Handbook of Research on Teacher Education was initiated to ferment …

Background A significant body of scholarship has highlighted the importance of
improvisation in teaching, particularly the interactional and responsive creativity that is …

Teacher education is often viewed as too theoretical and not sufficiently concerned with the
realities of classroom practice. From this perspective theory and practice are cast as distinct …