This reflection on practice explores dehumanizing educator talk as an explicit topic within multicultural/diversity/anti-bias and anti-racist teacher education. Dehumanizing educator talk is defined as formal or informal conversation during which targeted individuals or groups are openly demeaned with offensive generalizations in the absence of discernable educational goals leading to improved outcomes.

In this study, a group of Australian high-school teachers completed an extensive teacher beliefs questionnaire, undertook the Visible Classroom program to record and document their use of high-leverage teaching practices and had their students complete a survey based on perceptions of effective teaching.

This paper critically examines the tensions arising between Reception teachers' professional beliefs and knowledge, and the school readiness agenda in England.

Han är lärare sedan 14 år tillbaka och har tröttnat på det lagstadgade kvalitetsarbetet. I stället för att sitta i ett syrefattigt konferensrum och prata om skolans problem så vill han lösa problemen. "Formatet har förvrängts av skolorna", säger HP Tran.

To understand what to improve in initial teacher education to better prepare teachers for their profession, we asked alumni (N = 93) from three Swedish initial teacher education programs, what in their education they thought had benefited them the most in preparing them for a teaching career, and what they thought was lacking given their professional needs.

This study analyses how “active democratic participation” is conceptualised by sixteen teacher educators from eight institutions of higher education across four Nordic countries and how these conceptualisations are translated into their own teaching.

Research has shown the importance of teacher leaders in improving professional learning and schools. This case study investigates the development of a new teacher leader position at a Norwegian upper-secondary school with the responsibility for leading peer teachers’ collective professional development. Our aim is to understand the interplay between cultural/structural conditions and dynamic processes in…

The study examined how legislators, central bureaucrats, and teachers interpret the Swedish School Act's formulation that education should be based on science. A special focus was on education about values.

This study explores ways in which a group of teacher educators co-construct knowledge about students’ academic writing and aspects of academic writing instruction in collegial conversations.

In teacher education mentoring pre-service teachers is a critical factor. With background in research around mentoring pre-service teachers in connection to a training school project, this study aims to contribute knowledge about and identify mentors’ experiences of mentorship in the setting of a training school.

This article presents an interview study with seven newly-graduated male teachers in Icelandic compulsory schools.