Intercultural Studies of Teacher Education

Chapter 1. Cultivating Reflective Teachers: The Power and Pedagogy of Self-assessment; Christopher DeLuca, Jill Willis, Khandu Dorji, and Ann Sherman.- Chapter 2. From Classroom Teacher to Teacher Educator - Critical Insights and Experiences of Beginning Teacher Educators from Jamaica, England and the Middle East; Carmel Roofe, Kulwinder Maude and Sudha Govindswamy Sunder.- Chapter 3. Teachers' Motivation to Choose Teaching and Remain in the Profession: A Comparative Mixed Methods Study in Jamaica, Poland, and Turkey; Cynthia Onyefulu, Joanna Madalinska-Michalak and Bunyamin Bavli.- Chapter 4. Changing teacher educational contexts: Global discourses in teacher education and its effect on teacher education in national contexts; Janet Douglas-Gardner and Christine Callender.- Chapter 5. Professionalisation of Foreign Language Teacher Education in Germany, Iran and Poland in the Light of Contemporary (European) Standards in Teacher Training; Przemyslaw E. Gebal and Monika J. Nawracka.- Chapter 6. Exploring the Training Experiences of Teachers from Antigua and Barbuda, England, and Canada: Applications of the Pre-Service Emerging Reflective Teacher Training Model; Donna-Maria Maynard, Mia Amour Jules & Ian Marshall.- Chapter 7. Teacher Educators' Perceptions of Current Practices and Issues Affecting Initial Teacher Education Programmes in Jamaica, Greece, and Nigeria; Cynthia Onyefelu, Maria Chalari and Olufunke Fasoyiro.- Chapter 8. Conclusions: Lessons Learned; Christine Callender and Joanna Madalinska-Michalak.

Christine Callender is Lecturer in Education at UCL Institute of Education, UK. She has worked in schools, colleges and in the higher education sector for over 20 years and has undertaken consultancies nationally and internationally.

Joanna Madalinska-Michalak is Head of Department of Teaching and Pedeutology and Professor of Education at the Faculty of Education, University of Warsaw, Poland. She is President of the Polish Educational Research Association (Polskie Towarzystwo Pedaogiczne) and a member of the Council Board of the European Educational Research Association.