Editorial: Teacher Shortage and its impact on Teacher Profession.- The complex problem of Teacher Shortage in Germany.- Teacher Shortage in Russia: modern approaches at the federal level.- The Teacher Shortage in Sweden - What to do and how?.- Actor-Specific Constructions of Teacher Shortages and Corresponding Countermeasures.- Lateral entry teacher education in Hong Kong: Opportunities and challenges.- Thinking Laterally; the politics of reframing non-standard teacher education.- Between Global and Local: Strategies for Teacher Employment in Russian Schools.- Alternative Teacher Certification Preparation Programs in Response to the Shortage of Special Education Teachers in Urban and Rural Settings.- "Now the chance is big!" - Career choice motives and the transition into the teaching profession as a lateral entrant in Germany.- Lateral entry in the Federal state of Saxony - academic qualification models.- The qualification concept "introduction to pedagogics" in North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany, and its evaluation among lateral entrants in primary music education: a case study.- Academic qualification of second career teachers in mathematics - challenges, conditions of success and desiderata.- Teacher preparation experiences in a South African university.- BQL TU Dresden: Career change into teacher profession - demographics, motives and self-efficacy.- LETE in times of Covid 19 pandemic: a comparative study about online learning, testing and supporting teacher-students.- Engineering of Teacher Learning in Online Mathematics Methods Course: The Case of Video-based Didactical Chess Technique.
