Biographical note

Prof. Xudong Zhu is an expert on comparative and teacher education as well as foreign education history. He is Dean of the Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, General Secretary of Teacher Education Committee of Experts at the Ministry of Education, Director of the Center for Teacher Education Research, one of the Key Research Institutes of Humanities and Social Sciences at Universities, Ministry of Education, and Senior Visiting Scholar in the Fulbright Program at the University of Maryland. He has published more than eighty papers, ten books, and edited four series.

Huan Song is Professor and Director of the Institute of Teacher Education, Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University. He serves as Deputy Director of Center for Teacher Education Research of Beijing Normal University, Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences at Universities, the Ministry of Education; Adjunct Researcher at the Asia Pacific Centre for Leadership and Change at the Education University of Hong Kong; and Editor of Cogent Education. He was also selected into Youth Talent Program in Universities in Beijing. His research areas are teacher professional development, school improvement, curriculum reform, action research, and professional learning community. He has published more than 50 papers in SSCI or CSSCI journals, authored book, Research on Teacher Professional Community, and co-authored book, The Top Design of the Construction of Chinese Teachers in the New Era. He is Leader of several national- and provincial-level projects, including How to Improve Quality of Teacher Preparation (General Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China), Research on Reform of Teacher Qualification and Employment, Reform of Teacher Preparation and Training, and Teacher Law Revision (Program of MOE).