ABSTRACT

This article is a commentary on the seven articles in this special issue of EJTE on teacher quality from international perspectives. In the article, Marilyn Cochran-Smith points to differences as well as common themes and details across the articles in the issue. The article discusses the emergence of teacher quality as a global concern, including analysis of some of the assumptions underlying the issue and shifts in its meaning and valence over time. This commentary analyzes the articles in the issue according to scholarly genre and in terms of the questions addressed about teacher quality and larger professional, policy, and political goals. Cochran–Smith suggests that despite the global nature of teacher quality, what this concept actually means and how reforms are designed and implemented in particular countries vary considerably.

摘要

本文是对本期EJTE教师素质特刊七篇文章的国际视野评述。在文章中，Marilyn Cochran-Smith 指出了该期文章中的差异以及共同的主题和细节。文章讨论了教师质量作为全球关注的出现，包括分析该问题背后的一些假设以及其含义和价值随时间的变化。这篇评论根据学术体裁和关于教师质量和更大的专业、政策和政治目标的问题来分析该问题中的文章。Cochran-Smith 认为，尽管教师质量具有全球性，但这一概念的实际含义以及特定国家的改革设计和实施方式差异很大。