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Practice in Teacher Education: A study of professional learning

This readable, skilfully edited book goes a long way towards addressing the issues surrounding the currently embattled area of teacher education in England and Wales. Perhaps precisely because those of us involved in teacher education are under such constant threat (considerably sharpened, in fact, since this book was first published), it is important that the various contributors offer a range of viable, contextualised solutions and resolutions for some of the inevitable tensions and contradictions involved in such a huge and contentious field. This they do, given a clear principled lead by Heilbronn and Yandell as editors. The very breadth of the topic may seem daunting; it is to the editors’ great credit that they have kept matters in focus throughout, and the range of views and experiences recounted is illuminating rather than bewildering. Their introduction, moreover, succeeds admirably in linking the twelve chapters and the views of eleven other contributors into a coherent whole.