Vol. 20 No. 3 (2021): Teacher training

Editors of this Issue

Olga Bombardelli, University of Trento, Italy

Reinhold Hedtke, Bielefeld University, Germany

Birgit Weber, University of Cologne, Germany

This issue presents a varied set of papers on teacher training in the domain of social science education. Teachers play a vital role in education and have significant influence on the learning success and on pupils' development. Therefore, concepts, practices and effectiveness of teacher education for citizenship education are an important subject of research, especially for teaching social science with its high demands of knowledge, skills, responsibility and reflexivity. The papers of this issue cover a broad range of conceptual and empirical research on the education of professional educators in different countries.