Introduction - the issues facing teacher education policy, Rob McBride. Part 1 Intitial teacher training: change management in initial teacher education - national contexts, local circumstances and the dynamics and change, Chris Husbands; from integration to partnership - changing structures in initital teacher education, John Furlong et al; school- based initial teacher education in Scotland - archaic highlands or high moral ground?, Sally Brown; partnership in school-based primary teachers training - a new vision?, Anne Edwards and Jill Collison; learning about primary schools as workplaces - aspects of active staff membership during placements, Colin Biott and John Spindler; learning to teach - the development of pedagogical reasoning, Neville Bennett; initial teacher education policy and cultural transmission, David Clemson. Part 2 The induction of newly qualified teachers: government policy and the induction of new teachers, Susan Sidgwick; a knowledge base for mentors of beginning teachers - results of a Dutch experience, J.H.C. Vonk; reflective teaching - embrace or illusion, Les Tickle. Part 3 In-service education: embedding living methodologies into the system - the introspective practitioner, Eileen Francis; reconceptualizing policy on in-service teacher education, Jack Whitehead; why is action research a valid basis for professional development?, Christine O'Hanlon; professional learning and school development in action - a personal development planning project, Christopher Day; integrating enquiry into teachers' professional lives, David Frost; the hunter-gatherer academic in the higher educational jungle - a view from a university school of education, Rob McBride. Part 4 Broader considerations and summary: teacher education - the poverty of pragmatism, David Bridges; teacher education - notes towards a radical view, John F. Schostak; drawing the threads together - a summary, Rob McBride.
