What is Canadian about Teacher Education in Canada? Multiple Perspectives on Canadian Teacher Education in the Twenty-First Century

Abstract

The fifth working conference took place at York University in November, 2011 as a response to the question What is Canadian about teacher education in Canada? This volume emerged from that dialogue and contains four sections that: (a) question the notion of a common conceptual framework for teacher education in Canada; (b) consider what is particularly Canadian about various teacher education programmes across the country; (c) focus on research that explores challenges and advantages that Canadian teacher education programmes share with countries around the world, and; (d) look at recent innovations in Canadian teacher education and the needs that these innovative programmes attempt to respond to.