Introduction: Oceans Apart? Teaching and Teacher Preparation in Canada and the United Kingdom

Abstract

This special issue of CJEAP focuses on the overlapping policy arenas of teacher professionalism, teachers’ work and the initial preparation of teachers. All of the articles stem from two symposia on pre-service preparation held at the University of Manitoba, Canada, in February 2003 and the University of Nottingham, England, in May of the same year.(1) The purpose of the symposia was to share and examine changing practices in initial teacher education at both universities and to locate the discussion of these practices within a broader national and international exploration of the changing nature of teachers’ work and teacher professionalism.