Teaching the World's Teachers

Examining teacher education in an international context, this book captures the diversity of the world''s educators.

Many countries confront surprisingly similar challenges in preparing K-12 educators for success, while national contexts also make for surprising differences. In Teaching the World''s Teachers, education historians Lauren Lefty and James W. Fraser and their contributors make a convincing case for approaching these shared challenges from a more global and historically minded perspective.

Written by education scholars from eleven different countries-Argentina, Brazil, Catalonia-Spain, China, England, Finland, Ghana, Israel, Singapore, South Africa, and the United States-this book provides histories of teacher education reforms between roughly 1980 and 2020. The authors show how international trends that emerged during this period collided with national and regional contexts to produce unique teacher education systems in different nations. Whil