Prospects is UNESCO’s quarterly review of comparative education including viewpoints, articles and trends/cases. Examples of the articles found in this issue are: teacher education: reflections, debates, challenges and innovations; the paradox of educational reform in the evaluatory State: implications for teacher education; problem-based learning in initial teacher education; the experience of the teaching expedition and teacher networks: new modes of training, and how we teach the teachers: new ways to theorize practice and practise theory.