Books in the Estonian Studies in Education series

A collection of papers that analyses the professionalism of teachers in Estonia and neighbouring countries from several perspectives. It features data from the OECD TALIS survey that have been used to study the transformation of the teaching profession in present years.

Reveals what actually motivates teachers to develop their career, another, how to teach primary teachers to talk about visual art. This book explores a number of issues in education today.

Includes two papers that highlights the characteristics of reflection among teachers. In this book, two other papers study cooperation in lifelong learning - one, the impact of communities on professional learning among university lecturers, and the other, teacher-principal-parent partnerships in early childhood education.

The collection reports changes in the identities of teachers, and differences in lesson planning among novice and experienced teachers. Language competence and the structure of argumentation in examination compositions have also been studied. The learning strategy summarizing explained 33% of the variance in PISA 2009 reading results.