Includes bibliographical references and index.

Analysing the fallout in teacher education: government intervention, academic drift and the higher education "marketplace" / Jean Murray -- "Interesting times", or teacher education and professionalism in a "brave new world" / Norbert Pachler -- Building social capital in teacher education through university-school partnerships / Elaine Wilson -- Developing primary trainee teachers' professional identity on an initial teacher education course: linking course structure, professional relationships and pedagogic understanding / Jane Warwick , Paul Warwick, Holly Linklater, Penny Coltman -- Coordinating professional development across contexts and role groups / Kara Jackson, Paul Cobb. -- Perfection in teaching ... settling for excellence / Helen Demetriou, Elaine Wilson, Mark Winterbottom -- Teacher education as embedded in diversity: discursive connections between theory, research and practice / Lily Orland-Barak -- "The other person in the room": a hermeneutic-phenomenological inquiry into mentors' experience of using academic and professional literature with trainee history teachers / Christine Counsell.

"Initial teacher education continues to elicit strong views and contested prescriptions, with judgements made increasingly on the basis of international comparisons. Against this background of educational debate and polemic, there is a need for insights gained from research-based qualitative accounts of the processes and practice taking place in high-performing institutions and contexts. Teacher Education and Pedagogy combines critical discussion of transformative processes of teacher education policy and planning with fine-grained analysis of effective practice"--Book cover.

Text in English.