Research, Policymaking, and Innovation

Yan Wang is Senior Specialist at Academy of Regional and Global Governance of Beijing Foreign Studies University, China. Gábor Halász is Professor of Education at the Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology of the University Eötvös Loránd in Budapest, Hungary. Ainat Guberman is Head of the Research Authority at the MOFET Institute in Tel Aviv, Israel. Ahmed Baghdady is Research Manager at the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE), an initiative of Qatar Foundation. Dr. Oded Mcdossi is a post-doctoral fellow at the School of Education at The University of California, Irvine.

Part 1. Historical Evolution of Teacher Education Reforms.- Chapter 1. Cambodia: Teacher Development and Reform in Cambodia: Past, Present, and Future.- Chapter 2. Israel: The Practical Turn in Israeli Teacher Education: The Silent Reform.- Chapter 3. Qatar: Teacher Development Policies and Practices in Qatar’s Public Education System Post the Education Reform.- Chapter 4. Tajikistan: Teacher development in Tajikistan: Challenges and Opportunities in Developing Students 21st Century Skills.- Part 2. Status Quo in Teacher and Teacher Education: Issues, Trends and Challenges.- Chapter 5. India: Teachers and Teacher Education in India: Issues, Trends and Challenges.- Chapter 6. China: Teacher Development in China.- Chapter 7. Mongolia: Professional Development Needs of Teachers in Mongolian Higher.- Chapter 8. Kyrgyzstan: Teacher Professional Development in the Kyrgyz Republic: Challenges and Opportunities.- Part 3. Teacher Learning and Development: A Career Long Perspective.- Chapter 9.Singapore: Teacher Learning and Development in Singapore: A Career-long Perspective.- Chapter 10. Syria: Teacher Development in the Syrian Arab Republic – A Proposed Framework.- Chapter 11. Malaysia: Teaching Professional Development Master Plan of Malaysia.- Chapter 12. Hungary: Teacher Learning and Innovation: The Case of Hungary.- Part 4. Teacher Development and Innovation and in the Digital Era.- Chapter 13. Khazakstan: Striving toward sustainable development in education: the 10 year experience of Nazarbayev Intellectual schools.- Chapter 14. Turkey: Improving Teachers’ Skills for Pedagogic Usage of Educational Technologies: Turkish Perspective.- Chapter 15. Russia: Professional Development and Teachers Training in Russia.- Part 5 Curriculum, Teacher and Employment in Global Context.- Chapter 16. Albania: Linking professional education and labor market: Education and Employment reforms in Albania.- Chapter 17. Sri Lanka: Reforming the Secondary School Curriculum: A Sri Lankan Experience at the Dawn of the New Millennium.- Chapter 18. Lithuania: Discourse of Teacher Training Transformations in Lithuania.