Introduction

Why A Special Issue? Since 1993, the University of Umeå, Department of Education and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Curriculum and Instruction have collaborated on an unusual experiment in researcher education. Through the generosity of the Swedish government with a grant to the University of Umeå’s Department of Education and through funding from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Education in the U.S.A., numerous faculty and graduate students have been sharing their work and collaborating on different projects...

Contents

Marianne Bloch, Ingrid Nilsson and Kenneth Zeichner Introduction

Claudia Burns: “Good” Mothers and Children’s Success in School

Miryam Espinosa-Dulanto: Learning to Understand the Other
when Learning about One’s Own Heritage

Jörgen From & Carina Holmgren: On Culture, Meaning and Teaching in China
A discussion on cultural specific meanings of teaching in China

Helen Meyer: A Travelogue of Change: Integrating action research into the BETD

Debra Taylor: Wisconsin’s Welfare to Work Program: A Discursive
Analysis of Policy and Practice

Kathleen A. Travers: Exploring the Development
of Teacher Identity.

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