Teacher education in Poland: towards teachers' career-long professional learning

The paper focuses on the issue of a quality of teacher education, which is one of the key subjects appearing in the current debate on the directions of educational policy in the EU. The paper emphasises the importance of coherent career-long development of teachers’ learning in a changing context and creation of conditions for preparing teachers who are continuous learners themselves. The paper presents the overview of the changes in teacher education in Poland from 1990 onwards in the context of improving quality of teaching and learning and at the same time the quality of higher education. This overview should be read as a short description of the most important changes affecting teacher education and the teaching profession, and as an investigation into their aims and context in Poland.