Editorial: Teacher Education Advancement Network Journal, 11 (2)

The 19th issue of the TEAN journal presents a range of papers on a variety of topics, showing the diversity, interests and expertise of teacher education colleagues. The high standard of reviewing for the journal is again to be praised and the hard work put in by the authors is to be admired as testament to the desire of teacher educator colleagues to get their voice heard. We start the issue with a question: ‘What are the characteristics of a professional teacher educator?’ This question was distributed in a survey by TEAN to teacher education colleagues and this paper presents a distillation of data from survey respondents presented as a think piece which wishes to provoke thoughts in those that read it. With thanks to all those who engaged with the survey, the authors of the paper are: Ashley Compton, Bishop Grosseteste University; Jim Crawley, Bath Spa University; Fiona Curtis, University of Reading; Alaster Scott Douglas, University of Roehampton; Tony Eaude, Independent Research Consultant; Alison Jackson, University of Cumbria; Chris Philpott, University of Greenwich; Mark Plater, Bishop Grosseteste University; David Powell, University of Huddersfield; Adele Sewell, Bishop Burton College; Karen Vincent, Canterbury Christ Church University.