Teacher Education and the Challenge of Development

<p>In developing countries across the world qualified teachers are a rarity with thousands of untrained adults taking over the role and millions of children having no access to schooling at all. </p> <p><i>Teacher Education and the Challenge of Development </i>is co-written by experts working across a wide range of developing country situations. It provides a unique overview of the crisis surrounding the provision of high-quality teachers in the developing world and how these teachers are crucial to the alleviation of poverty. The book explores existing policy structures and identifies the global pressures on teaching which are particularly acute in developing economies.</p>