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This book examines the pre-service teacher education policy development of seven countries, including the USA, the UK, Japan, Canada, Singapore, Australia, and Russia. This book reviews the history of pre-service teacher education policies in those countries and discusses relative case studies on pre-service teacher training practices. It also identifies problems in current pre-service teacher education in those countries and proposes potential countermeasures to resolve those issues. This book serves as a useful reference for various stakeholders in the teacher education field.

Teacher education and the development of democratic citizenship in Europe / Andrea Raiker & Matti Rautiainen -- Competences for democratic culture : towards new priorities in European educational systems? / Claudia Lenz -- Teacher education and the development of democratic education in England / Neil Hopkins -- Democratic citizenship in scarce conditions : educating citizens in neoliberal Estonia / Mari-Liis Jakobson, Eve Eisenschmidt & Leif Kalev -- Democratic citizenship and teacher education in Finland / Matti Rautiainen, Perttu Männistö & Aleksi Fornaciari -- Education for democratic citizenship in Ireland / Cathal Butler -- From the concept of citizenship to the transversal skills for global citizenship in schools / Federica Zanetti & Elena Pacetti -- The evolving concept of democracy in Kosovo education system : reflections on teacher education role / Blerim Saqipi -- Itinerant curriculum theory in the making : towards alternative ways to do alternative forms of teacher education / João M. Paraskeva & Maria Alfredo Moreira -- "Democracy for me is saying what I want" : the teaching profession on free speech, democratic mission and the notion of political correctness in a Swedish context / Silvia Edling & Johan Liljestrand -- Changing society, changing teacher education / Matti Rautiainen & Andrea Raiker.