• Teacher Education Policies and Practices
• Teacher education policies and practices in different countries
• Changing World and Teacher Qualities/Standards
• Generic competences of teachers
• Specific (professional/vocational) competences of teacher
•  Teachers’ competences related to the use of technology
• Standards in the profession of teaching
• Pre­Service Education of Teachers
• Different trends in teacher education programs
• Accreditation in teacher education
• Quality in teacher education: Issues of measurement
• Alternative programs for teacher education
• In­Service Education of Teachers
• Professional development problems of teachers and different approaches to them
• Integration of Information and Communication Technologies with programs
• Distant education practices in teachers’ professional development
• Different approaches to teachers’ professional development: Problems and solutions
• Problems of Teachers and Teacher Educators
• The role of research in teacher education
• The emergence of teacher communities as part of the changing world of teachers and teacher educators.

Sub-themes:

• the need for teaching and for a teacher in the face of Long Life Learning discourse
• the impact of digitization on the future of (school) education,
• the issue of language/a lingua franca/the dominant position of (global) English(es) in a globalized and multicultural world.