Innovation in Teacher Education

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Davide Parmigiani
Stan van Ginkel
George Saltsman
Bijay Dhungana

Abstract

[...] We wanted to gather colleagues who have tested new methods and strategies that allow prospective teachers to face the current global challenges. However, our attention is not only focused simply on “how” technologies allow us to identify new perspectives but also on “why” we must multiply our efforts to give the teachers of future generations more intellectual and technical solutions in order to develop new meaningful learning environments. Innovation in teacher education means creating educational paths, where trainee teachers feel they are becoming part of a historical process in which past and present are continuously interwoven (Gadamer, 1979).  
In several teacher education institutions around the globe, digital innovations are supporting the education of future teachers. [...]

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