• Rising to the challenge of teacher education to prepare teachers for today’s world

    Rising to the challenge of teacher education to prepare teachers for today’s world


The world we live in faces extraordinary challenges of global change, including political populism, prejudice, the climate crisis, physical conflict, migration and socioeconomic inequality. Teachers have a key role in responding to these challenges since they have the responsibility of educating the children and young people who will live in and lead this world for years to come. Consequently, the responsibility extends to teacher educators, whose role is essential to the development of teachers as agentive professionals, capable of transformational impacts on learners.

Edited by academics at the Centre for Teachers and Teaching Research at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, this special feature show-cases high-quality papers that address the work of teacher educators in contributing to the formation of agentic practitioners and their capacities to challenge the inequalities faced by the children and young people they teach and prepare them for the future. 

Publication date: From December 2022 - September 2023. 



Guest Editors

Dr Becky TaylorIOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, UCL, UK.
Dr Grace HealyIOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, UCL, UK.



Article list 


Research article


Enquiring into a teacher performance assessment: towards intelligent professional responsibility in initial teacher education

Nerida Spina, Rebecca Spooner-Lane, Julia Mascadri and Elizabeth Briant

2022-12-06 Volume 20 • Issue 1 • 2022

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Special feature: Rising to the challenge of teacher education to prepare teachers for today’s world

Climate change and sustainability education in India and the place for arts-based practice: reflections from East Kolkata Wetlands

Verity Jones, Saptarshi Mitra and Nobina Gupta

2022-12-13 Volume 20 • Issue 1 • 2022

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Special feature: Rising to the challenge of teacher education to prepare teachers for today’s world

The experiences of newly qualified teachers in 2020 and what we can learn for future cohorts

Aimee Quickfall, Philip Wood and Emma Clarke

2022-12-20 Volume 20 • Issue 1 • 2022

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Special feature: Rising to the challenge of teacher education to prepare teachers for today’s world

Learning to think, perform and act with integrity: does teacher education have a signature pedagogy, and why does this matter?

Clare Brooks, Joanna McIntyre and Trevor Mutton

2023-01-03 Volume 21 • Issue 1 • 2023

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Special feature: Rising to the challenge of teacher education to prepare teachers for today’s world

The role of mathematics teacher educators in preparing teachers of mathematics to respond to global challenges within their classrooms

Alf Coles and Tracy Helliwell

2023-01-31 Volume 21 • Issue 1 • 2023

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Special feature: Rising to the challenge of teacher education to prepare teachers for today’s world

The master’s element in initial teacher training: what is its value?

Georgina Merchant and Sara Bubb

2023-02-14 Volume 21 • Issue 1 • 2023

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Special feature: Rising to the challenge of teacher education to prepare teachers for today’s world

The university role in new teacher learning – why it matters: Teach First trainee perspectives

Jane Tillin

2023-02-21 Volume 21 • Issue 1 • 2023

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Special feature: Rising to the challenge of teacher education to prepare teachers for today’s world

Research-informed teacher education, teacher autonomy and teacher agency: the example of Finland

Jennifer Chung

2023-03-28 Volume 21 • Issue 1 • 2023

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Special feature: Rising to the challenge of teacher education to prepare teachers for today’s world

Libyan teachers as transitionalist pragmatists: conceptualising a path out of the peacebuilding narrative in conflict-affected contexts

Reem Ben Giaber

2023-04-18 Volume 21 • Issue 1 • 2023

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Special feature: Belonging and home-making in the internationalised campus

Special feature: Rising to the challenge of teacher education to prepare teachers for today’s world

Scarcely visible? Analysing initial teacher education research and the Research Excellence Framework

Andrew Clapham, Ruth Richards, Katie Lonsdale and Linda la Velle

2023-07-11 Volume 21 • Issue 1 • 2023

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Special feature: Rising to the challenge of teacher education to prepare teachers for today’s world