In this Special Issue, we proudly showcase five articles that reflect on the past and look toward the future across a number of critical issues in teacher education and special education. This special issue also serves as our inaugural project as new Teacher Education and Special Education (TESE) editors. We invited “Sages” (i.e., well-respected, senior-level members) from the Teacher Education Division (TED) community to author articles that include historical perspectives and future considerations pertaining to a topic. We directed each Sage to create a writing team, inclusive of one or more early career scholars, with the intent to leverage multigenerational perspectives about several contemporary issues within the field of teacher education and special education. The topics we identified certainly do not represent an exhaustive account of the myriad of pressing issues, trends, and unanswered questions facing the field, as there are too many to include in one special issue; rather our aim was to put forth a collection of articles that, when taken together, represent broad fields of study that have been, and continue to be, critical to advancing the scholarship in teacher education and special education, and most importantly, improving outcomes for students with disabilities and their families. In particular, these topics have remained fundamental to scholarly and practical pursuits within teacher education and special education across time, despite shifts in social, political, and economic contexts.

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过去是序幕：关于师范教育和特殊教育的理性思考

在本期特刊中，我们自豪地展示了五篇文章，它们回顾了过去，并展望了教师教育和特殊教育中许多关键问题的未来。此特刊也作为我们的首个项目，即新的教师教育和特殊教育（TESE）编辑器。我们邀请了教师教育部（TED）社区的“贤者”（即受人尊敬的高级成员）撰写文章，其中包括有关该主题的历史观点和未来考虑。我们指示每个Sage创建一个包括一个或多个早期职业学者的写作团队，以期利用多代人对教师教育和特殊教育领域中若干当代问题的观点。我们确定的主题当然不能完全说明本领域面临的众多紧迫问题，趋势和未解决的问题，因为一个特刊中有太多的内容；相反，我们的目的是提出一系列的文章，这些文章放在一起代表了过去并将继续存在的广泛研究领域，对于提高师范教育和特殊教育的奖学金至关重要，最重要的是，改善残疾学生及其家庭的学习成果。尤其是，尽管社会，政治和经济环境发生了变化，但这些主题仍然是跨时代教师教育和特殊教育中学术和实践追求的基础。