Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
pp. vii-x
Chapter 1
Preparing a ‘Classroom-Ready’ Teacher: The Challenge for Teacher Educators
(John Buchanan, Sandy Schuck, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia)
pp. 1-22
Chapter 2
Training of Teachers of Occupation-Related Programmes
(Sai Y. Loo, UCL Institute of Education, University College London, England)
pp. 23-40
Chapter 3
Sociocultural Aspects of the Impact of Computing Technology on the Preparation of K-12 Mathematics Teachers
(Sergei Abramovich, State University of New York at Potsdam, Potsdam, NY, USA and Michael L. Connell, University of Houston-Downton, USA)
pp. 41-76
Chapter 4
Facilitating Students’ Understanding of Science through Teacher Education
(Mansoor Niaz, Epistemology of Science Group Department of Chemistry, Universidad de Oriente, Cumaná, Venezuela)
pp. 77-90
Chapter 5
Perspectives of Online Professional Development: A Study of Rural Teachers in Northwestern China
(Zuochen Zhang, University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada and Liyan Liu, Ningxia Normal University, Guyuan, China)
pp. 91-108
Index
pp. 109-117