Teacher quality in the twenty first century: new lives, old truths

Day, Christopher

Abstract

This chapter is based upon a keynote address to the first global teacher education summit, organised by Beijing Normal University in 2011, in which research across the world about influences which affect teachers' sense of professional identity, capacity for compassion, commitment, resilience and effectiveness long after they have graduated from their pre-service education and training programmes in universities and colleges were shared. The findings suggest that teaching pre-service students about how the conditions in which they work may enhance or diminish their capacity to teach to their best and how they might act to mediate these is a key part of the work of all teacher educators and an important focus for the work of educational researchers.

Citation

Day, C. (2013). Teacher quality in the twenty first century: new lives, old truths. In X. Zhu, & K. Zeichner (Eds.), Preparing teachers for the 21st century. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36970-4_2

• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2013
• Deposit Date: Mar 17, 2015
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 17, 2015
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Series Title: New frontiers of educational research
• Book Title: Preparing teachers for the 21st century
• ISBN: 9783642369698
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36970-4_2
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1003925
• Publisher URL: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-36970-4_2
• Additional Information: The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36970-4_2