Getting the Teachers We Need: International Perspectives on Teacher Education

This book offers engaging, thoughtful, and sometimes provocative ways of engaging in the debate around what is and can be in teacher education.

Miriam Ben-Peretz is Professor Emerita at the Faculty of Education at the University of Haifa where she served as Chair of the Department of Teacher Education and Dean of the School of Education. A pioneer in research on teacher learning, she has written extensively on teacher education, learning to teach, mentoring and new teacher induction. She was also President of Tel-Hai College. She was the 2006 Laureate of the Israel Priz

Her main research interests are curriculum, teacher education and professional development, policy-making and Jewish education. She also served on the education faculties at the University of Chicago and Michigan State University. A member of the American National Academy of Education, Prof. Miriam Ben-Peretz is Professor Emerita at the Faculty of Education at the University of Haifa where she served as Chair of the Department of Teacher Education and Dean of the School of Education. A pioneer in research on teacher learning, she has written extensively on teacher education, learning to teach, mentoring and new teacher induction. She was the 2006 Laureate of the Israel Prize for Research in Education and in 2015, she received the Israeli Prime-Minister’s award, the EMET prize, for her contribution to educational research.. About the AuthorSharon Feiman-Nemser is the Jack