chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 Teacher Education and the Development of Professional Identity: Learning to be a Teacher -- chapter 2 Teacher Learning and the Theory of Variation -- chapter 3 Areas of Professional Research: A Proposal for Organising the Content of Teacher Education -- chapter 4 How to Affect the Quality of Teacher Education: A Four-Year Policy-Driven Project Implemented at University Level -- chapter 5 Learning from the Conversation of New Teachers -- chapter 6 Inside Teacher Community: Representations of Classroom Practice -- chapter 7 The Contemporary Basic Values of School: The Emperor's new Clothes ? -- chapter 8 Exploring the Landscape of Teachers Tacitly Implied Ethics: An Aristotelian Uncovering -- chapter 9 Cultural Scaffolding: The Arts and Crafts Teacher's Mediation with Her Students with Behavioural Problems -- chapter 10 What is Actually Happening in Secondary Classrooms? The Rhetoric and Reality of Curricular Reform -- chapter 11 Students Voices at a Portuguese University: Academic Motivation and its Relationship with Academic Success -- chapter 12 Discourse Dissonance in University Policy Concerning Intellectual Property -- chapter 13 When Angels Dance With Devils: What is Sacred and Profane in the University? -- chapter 14 Listening to Students Voices: Self Study of Teacher Education Practice -- chapter 15 Doctoral Degree Assessment Criteria: Towards Transparency through Exploring Teacher Thinking -- chapter 16 The Challenge to be the Best: Research and the Teacher -- chapter 17 Tertiary Teacher Development: Connecting Policy, Personal Theory and Practice -- chapter 18 Collaboration in Cross-National Networks for Teacher Professional Development -- chapter 19 Dilemmas of Democratic Education -- chapter 20 When the Best Maps Cannot Guide Us: Exploring and Understanding Teacher Vulnerability -- chapter 21 Teacher and Student Identities as Situated Cognitions -- chapter 22 On a Pedagogy of Research Problems -- chapter 23 Shared Fundamental Democratic Values by Means of Education? A Deweyan Perspective on Some Democratic Illusions and Necessities -- chapter 24 Confronting the Person in Biographical Interviews -- chapter 25 Teachers Becoming Researchers: Reflections on Professional Development.