Lifelong Education and Training of Teacher and Development of Human Capital

Currently, teachers’ education and training are worldwide considered crucial for every country with globalized, advanced and knowledge-based economy, even in a period of widespread economic and financial crisis. “Equipping people to deal with these demands requires a new model of education and training, a model of lifelong learning” (World Bank, 2007). So, a lifelong learning perspective is a key issue to allow countries to face current challenges and a lifelong learning perspective for teachers’ education and training is more crucial too, because teachers have the task to educate students at all levels and age. In Italy particularly, the university initial teachers’ education has been recently reformed, while the context, even regulatory, concerning teachers lifelong education and training is far to be overall systematized and satisfactory. So, the aim of this paper is to focus on pedagogical debate and educational research about the crucial role of teachers’ education and training.