Teacher educators’ professional development

This final chapter is written against the background of an extraordinary year in terms of the global effects of both the Covid-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement on education in general, and particularly on teacher education and teacher educators’ professional learning. Against this background, the chapter collates, summarises and further explores the recurring themes and issues across all earlier parts of the book. The implications of those findings are discussed in relation to the future research needed in the area of teacher educators’ professional learning. An additional aspect here is considering what the collective implications of the book are for first, the planning, design, implementation and evaluation of formal professional development programmes, and second, for informal learning in the workplace on a day-to-day basis. The chapter aims to help readers who are involved in either research on teacher educators or programme design for their professional development to consider how the findings of the book might be adapted for particular contexts and learning needs. Finally, the future research required in this important area of educational policy is identified.