The Perspectives of University Teacher Training - Bases, Paradigms, and Societal Challenges

The study deals with basic foundations for today's understanding of the teacher profession and the preparation for it. It analyses the social and personal implications of the globalization process for a human being that are mirrored in new requirements for the role of formative education, role of school, understanding of a child. The worldwide crisis of the teacher profession requires aimed steps towards the strengthening of a teacher's status in society as well as profound reforms of teacher training. Postmodern plurality influences the existence of various ahead-pushed models of teacher training worldwide.