Progress in Education. Volume 87

This book focuses on progress in education. Chapter 1 aims to present a comprehensive and coherent history of language teacher education. Chapter 2 emphasizes the importance of inclusivity and equity in education, ensuring that all students have access to these modern learning pathways. Chapter 3 explores the attitudes of pre-service teachers (PSTs) toward inclusion and the impact of educational background, cultural context, and individual beliefs. Chapter 4 analyzes how the curriculum for physics teachers’ training incorporates elements of PCK and describes how the instructors responsible for teaching physics courses in physics teacher training programs interpret curriculum guidelines with the goal of developing the PCK of pre-service teachers. Chapter 5 focuses on a recent analysis of the impact of creative thinking and document portfolio assessment on mathematical problem-solving abilities. Chapter 6 discusses how biological risk factors of infants born extremely preterm affect their reading skills at school age. Chapter 7 obtains an overview of the effect of the integrated material formulation applied to the self- designed project-based learning model on the achievement of vocational students' work competencies in the complex lathe machining field.