Autorentext

Jonna Kangas is a Professor at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland and Nord University, Norway. Jonna is also an Adjunct Professor University of Southern Cross, Australia.

Heidi Harju-Luukkainen is a Professor of Education at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, and serves as Director of the education unit and Vice Director of the University Consortium. She has held academic positions in six countries, published over 300 scholarly works and led more than 40 international projects.

Natallia Bahdanovich Hanssen is a Professor in Special Needs Education at the Faculty of Education and Arts at Nord University in Bodø, Norway. She is a leader of the research group Special Needs Education and Speech Therapy: SKILL.

Klappentext

In a time of rapid educational change, Innovative Teacher Training delivers a bold and accessible roadmap for reimagining teacher education. From pre-service and in-service training to vocational education, it blends global perspectives with actionable strategies to tackle societal, technological, and pedagogical challenges.

Spanning international contexts, the book showcases fresh and meaningful ways to improve teacher education while prioritising socio-emotional wellbeing, interdisciplinary collaboration, and reflective practice. It provides grounded examples of co-teaching models, trauma-informed care, blended learning, participatory pedagogies, and research-based supervision, alongside solutions to systemic issues like teacher shortages, curriculum reforms, and digital integration. Organised into four thematic sections, it explores the current landscape of teacher training, advancements in vocational and primary education, insights from early childhood education, and lessons from student perspectives.

Essential for teachers, educators, researchers, policymakers, and institutional leaders, this book offers a rich blend of case studies, theoretical insights, and practical models. It empowers readers to rethink teacher education as a dynamic, collaborative process and provides the tools to build inclusive, future-ready systems in a rapidly evolving world.

Inhalt

1. Introduction to Innovation in Teacher Education 2. Current Challenges for Innovations in Teacher Education 3. Innovations in Australian Early Childhood Teacher Education 4. The Role of Surprise in Kindergarten Teacher Education: The Approach of "Artoo - Art as Told by Children" 5. Supporting Mutual Professional Development of Pre-service and In-service Teachers through Innovative Co-teaching Approaches 6. Inclusion of the Concept of Trauma-Informed Care in Education as an Innovative Component of the Primary School Teacher Training Curriculum in Ukraine 7. Master's Thesis Supervision for Educational Innovation 8. Making a Theory a Lived Theory: Challenges in Early Mathematics Education 9. Students as Co-Creators of Reflective Practice: The Reflective Pair Model in Blended Teacher Training Program in Finland 10. Reimagining Teacher Expertise: Finnish Student Teachers' Visions for Future-Ready Education 11. Science of Education Within Participatory Model of Knowledge Development: A Case from Slovenia 12. 'Is This Critical Enough?' A Self-Study of The Role of Teacher Educator 13. The Master's Thesis in Primary Teacher Education: Innovation and Capacity Building 14. Empowerment to Participatory Pedagogy: Fostering Participatory Pedagogy Through an In-Service Training Program in Moroccan ECE 15. Teacher Education Staff's Experiences with Blended Learning in Early Childhood Teacher Education Programs in Finland 16. Is Teaching for Critical Thinking a New Educational Pathway for Vocational Teachers? 17. Collaborative Dialogic Reflection as a Tool for Developing Pedagogical Reasoning in Pre-service Teacher Education 18. Teacher Educators' Agency and Student Teachers in Co-Creation in the Context of a Systemic Initiative Developing Teacher Education Through Professional Inquiry 19. Horizons of Possibility: Innovation as a Living Practice