Colloquium Provocation Paper: New Ideas on Teacher Education for Achieving Equity in Education

Rather than approaching issues of equity from the tack of critical theory, the authors examine equity from the angle of learning theory, attending to some of the dramatic developments in research and theory that have transformed the playing field of formal education. The authors frame their thinking using five of the many game-changing developments that have emerged from the research into learning over the past decade and follow by examining innovations in teacher education that embody these developments to some extent, looking toward a model of teacher education that addresses issues of equity and inequity through new understandings of learning.