Highly qualified and competent teachers are fundamental for equitable and effective education systems. Teachers today are facing higher and more complex expectations to help students reach their full potential and become valuable members of 21st century society. The nature and variety of these...

Despite increased funding and many reforms, most education systems are still seeking ways to better prepare their students for a world in which technological change and the digital revolution are changing the way we work, live and relate to one another. Education systems that have succeeded in...

"Public education is critically important to the human capital, social well-being, and economic prosperity of nations. It is also an intensely political realm of public policy that is heavily shaped by power and special interests. Yet political scientists rarely study education, and education...

In der kumulativen Dissertationsschrift werden domänenspezifische Vorstellungen von Financial Literacy von Lehrkräften in der beruflichen Grundbildung untersucht. Die Bedeutung dieser Vorstellungen entstammt zum einen kognitionspsychologischen Argumentationslinien zum Einfluss von mentalen...

This volume covers advances that have occurred in the thirty year existence of the International study association on teachers and teaching (ISATT), the organization that helped transition the study of teacher thinking to the study of teachers and teaching in all of its complexities. This...