Pedagogy of teacher education

Pedagogy of teacher education is a term that is0 used to describe the knowledge and practice of teaching and learning about teaching. It is0 a construct that emerged in the literature based on the notion that teachers of teachers require specialist knowledge and skills about teachingthat are particular to the teaching of teaching. Following on from studies in the 1970s and early 1980s aimed at defining expertise in teaching, that which teacher educators need to know and be able to do to prepare the next generation of teachers started to attract serious attention from teacher educators themselves. As a consequence, teacher education programs came under scrutiny and questions about how best to prepare teachers created a need to better understand how learning about teachingwas influenced by student teachers’ experiences in their teacher education programs.