Envisioning Teaching And Learning Of Teachers For Excellence And Equity In Education

This edited book is a collection of keynote speeches in the 3rd Global Teacher Education Summit in Beijing Normal University from October 14 to 16, 2017. The speeches intend to raise international response in the field of teacher education to the enduringly changing education policy environment. Multiple perspectives are needed in order to gain insights into teaching and teacher education for excellence and equity, as well as disentangle from rigid, inapplicable old paradigms. This book on one hand provides typify global voices, and on the other hand contributes Chinese stories to this field. China’s education manifests a tendency with stronger indigenous features related to the changing domestic climate and international geopolitical position. Chapters included about teaching and teacher education in China can provide local evidence, intelligence and relevance to global audience, and even voice indigenous epistemes within the non-Western platform. This book aims to build such dialogs between global perspectives and Chinese insights for heteroglossia in content and methodology in the field of teaching and teacher education.