Handbook of Research on Teacher Education

Myint Swe Khine is an Adjunct Professor at Curtin University, Australia. He has more than 30 years of experience in teacher education. He received Master's degrees from the University of Southern California, USA, University of Surrey, UK, and the University of Leicester, UK, and a Doctoral degree from Curtin University, Australia. He worked at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and Emirates College for Advanced Education in the United Arab Emirates. He has wide-ranging research interests in teacher education, science education, learning sciences, psychometrics, measurement, assessment, and evaluation. He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of several international academic journals. Throughout his career, he has published over 40 edited books. These include Large Scale School Reform and Social Capital Building (Routledge, 2013), Emerging Trends in Learning Analytics (Brill, 2019), Contemporary Perspectives on Research in Educational Assessment (Information Age Publishing, 2020), and Rasch Measurement: Applications in Quantitative Educational Research (Springer, 2020). Yang Liu is a lecturer at the Shanghai Maritime University in China. He received a Master's degree from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and a Ph.D. from Curtin University, Australia. His published work includes investigating students' conceptual learning of science by using visual representations, content analysis of science textbooks, and exploring the effective teaching strategies when multiple modes of visualizations are presented in secondary school science classrooms. He further developed measuring instruments as well as instructional strategies for teachers based on the close examination of teachers' teaching practices. His past research has been presented at national and international science and science education conferences. Yang continues to give significant attention to teachers' instruction and teacher education.

PART I          INTODUCTIONChapter 1




Teacher Education and Nation Building: Developing Social Capital



PART II         Teacher Education in Southeast Asia




Chapter 2




Teacher Education Research and Development in Singapore



Chapter 3




Teacher Education Research and Development in Malaysia



Chapter 4




Teacher Education Research and Development in Thailand



Chapter 5




Teacher Education Research and Development in the Philippines



Chapter 6




Teacher Education Research and Development in Vietnam



Chapter 7




Teacher Education Research and Development in Cambodia



Chapter 8




Teacher Education Research and Development in Lao PDR



Chapter 9




Teacher Education Research and Development in Myanmar



Chapter 10




Teacher Education Research and Development in Indonesia



Chapter 11




Teacher Education Research and Development in Brunei



PART III       Teacher Education in South Asia




Chapter 12




Teacher Education Research and Development in India



Chapter 13




Teacher Education Research and Development in Pakistan



Chapter 14




Teacher Education Research and Development in Bangladesh



Chapter 15




Teacher Education Research and Development in Bhutan



PART IV       Teacher Education in East Asia




Chapter 16




Teacher Education Research and Development in China



Chapter 17




Teacher Education Research and Development in Korea



Chapter 18




Teacher Education Research and Development in Taiwan



Chapter 19




Teacher Education Research and Development in Japan



Chapter 20




Teacher Education Research and Development in Hong Kong



Chapter 21




Teacher Education Research and Development in Macau



PART V         Future Directions




Chapter 22




Future Directions: Quest for World-class Teacher Education