Since the early 1990s there has been a call to focus on supporting early career teachers and improve teacher quality (Darling-Hammond, 1995; Huling-Austin, 1992). This has led to national standards, legislation and policies on teacher induction which aim to safeguard early career teacher learning. In …

The importance of teaching engineering students innovation development is commonly clearly understood. It is essential to achieve products which are attractive and profitable in the market. To achieve this, an institute of engineering education has to provide students with needed knowledge, skills and …

Introduction and theoretical background Professional development of teacher educators is an important issue because in order to be able to teach the teachers of the future, teacher educators have to keep their own knowledge and skills 'future proof' (Kools, 2011a). A lot of professional development …