The ATEE Summer Conference in 2022 will focus on engaging on pressing matters for teacher education at this time and looking to the implications of these matters for educating teachers.

The theme is “Teacher Education and Practice: Foresight and Hindsight” with sub-themes around
• Education Disciplines and Practice
• Migrant Teachers and Teaching without borders
• The End of Teacher Education?
• Teacher Education and Media
• Sustainability and Teacher Education

The focus of the conference will be on the relationship between teacher education and practice. This applies to both the practice of teacher education and the practice of teaching tapping into lessons that can be learned from each to inform the other. The term practice is also a rich one that can be interpreted in multiple ways (Lampert, 2010).
Sub themes will allow the conference to explore other pertinent topics in teacher education such as the relationships between disciplines (philosophy, sociology, history, psychology and anthropology) and the practice of teacher education. The implications of teachers moving across national borders has implications for their preparation and subsequent employment; this is a second proposed sub-theme. The “End” of teacher education plays on both meanings of the word “end” in that it refers to the goal/purpose/meaning of teacher education and it also questions the extent to which university-based teacher education continues to be relevant in a context where alternative routes based around apprenticeships are emerging. Finally, the voice of teacher education in the conventional and emerging media is proposed as a sub-theme for the conference.