Within the central topics of the debate on teachers' professionalism are the problems of research-based and evidence-based initial and lifelong teacher behavior. Although the statements on professional similarities of teacher actions with those of other (academic) professionals are very plausible, there remains a central task for teacher educa-tion programs: How to develop towards such expertise - which is equal to evidence convictions - effectively and efficiently. Which role do scientific research and its results play in this con-text? How can research results be converted into...

The themes of the different papers in this book are related to five major areas of research. First, the book presents the work on a large-scale assessment in vocational and occupational education and training. Reason was the work of Frank Achtenhagen and his colleagues on the preparation of a VET-PISA which started in 2004 which has now become more and more a concrete program. The contributions to this part of the book contain a project description and profound presentations and discussions of measurement and evaluation problems. It reflects also the work of Achtenhagen with respect to item...

The book focuses on the pains and gains of international mobility in teacher education - its challenges and benefits. The aim is on the one hand to identify some of the challenges which help to explain the low percentage of internationally orientated teacher education students and suggest how to overcome them. On the other hand, major benefits of international mobility in teacher education are presented in the form of competences that can be acquired through studying and teaching abroad. The five chapters of this book refer to reports on practical experiences with international mobility in...

The book focuses on the pains and gains of international mobility in teacher education - its challenges and benefits. The aim is on the one hand to identify some of the challenges which help to explain the low percentage of internationally orientated teacher education students and suggest how to overcome them. On the other hand, major benefits of international mobility in teacher education are presented in the form of competences that can be acquired through studying and teaching abroad. The five chapters of this book refer to reports on practical experiences with international mobility in...

The Handbook of Moral Motivation offers a contemporary and comprehensive appraisal of the age-old question about motivation to do the good and to prevent the bad. From a research point of view, this question remains open even though we present here a rich collection of new ideas and data. Two sources helped the editors to frame the chapters: first they looked at an overwhelmingly fruitful research tradition on motivation in general (attribution theory, performance theory, self-determination theory, etc.) in relationship to morality. The second source refers to the tension between moral...

The Handbook of Moral Motivation offers a contemporary and comprehensive appraisal of the age-old question about motivation to do the good and to prevent the bad. From a research point of view, this question remains open even though we present here a rich collection of new ideas and data. Two sources helped the editors to frame the chapters: first they looked at an overwhelmingly fruitful research tradition on motivation in general (attribution theory, performance theory, self-determination theory, etc.) in relationship to morality. The second source refers to the tension between moral...

Ethos - von der Haltung zum Verfahren 0. 1 Von der Definition zum Prozessmodell Welche Krafte auch Schuld daran sein mogen, immer wieder seit der Grun dung der Volksschule hat man versucht, aus Lehrpersonen moralische Hel den und HeIdinnen zu machen. Von Arzten, Pfarrern, Richtern gilt ahnliches in anderer Weise. Lehrpersonen sind in der Tat Experten des Lernens, der Kommunikation und der Verantwortung, Arzte sind Experten des Heilens, Richter Experten der Gesetze. Aber moralische Ubermenschen konnen sie nicht mehr sein, auch wenn die Qualitat und der Charme des Buches "Some do care" von...