This book focuses on current trends, potential challenges and further developments of teacher education and professional development from a theoretical, empirical and practical point of view. It intends to provide valuable and fresh insights from research studies and examples of best practices from Europe and all over the world. The authors deal with the strengths and limitations of different models, strategies, approaches and policies related to teacher education and professional development in and for changing times(digitization, multiculturalism, pressure to perform).

Contributions by: Amėlia Lopes, Jennifer Yamin-Ali, Livia Nano, Neus Lorenzo Galés, Nada Kallçiu, Nikoleta Mita, Katarzyna Skok, Aušra Rutkiene, Tetiana Ponomarenko, Heliona Miço, Manjola Lumani Zaçellari, Erika Kruger, Lynette Jacobs, Frances Margaret Green, Beata Mirucka, Monika Kisielewska, Anna Babicka-Wirkus, Iwona Lewkowicz, Katalin Tóth-Pjeczka, Nóra Rapos, Judit Szivák, Anna Krajewska, Barbara Sabitzer, Heike Demarle-Meusel, Christoph Painer, Elisa Briga, Roelof Petrus Reyneke, Julia Kazakova, Katarzyna Szorc, Beata Kunat, Emilia Kramkowska, Wioleta Danilewicz, Tomasz Prymak, João Pedro Constâncio