![]() In Sweden, in total, more than 45,000 teachers will end their employment within the next decade. Sweden and South Africa share a common societal challenge with many of other countries in the world, the risk of lack of qualified teachers to support societal knowledge development. ![]() UNESCO Institute of Statistic states that: “In the next 14 years, countries must recruit 68.8 million teachers to provide every child with primary and secondary education: 24.4 million primary school teachers and 44.4 million secondary school teachers”. Finally, a proposal of how to bridge the gap between theory and practice with designed modules is presented. The results of a case study of students’ views on theories are presented, showing a strong experienced dichotomy between theory and practice, and difficulties to see how theories could be used to better understand classroom situations. This is followed by an overview of two key aspects of teachers’ professional development, namely bridging the gap between practice and theory to enhance teaching quality as well as the importance of practice-based professional development to maintain teachers to work as teacher in a long-term perspective. In this chapter, the deficiency of examined teachers is addressed in Section 1. The difficulties with knowledge transfer to new generations, are a global threat. ![]() Examples from the USA show that up to 50% of new teachers quit working as teachers within 5 years. The situation in, for example, Sweden and South Africa faces huge issues concerning an increased lack of teachers in the future, as well as difficulties with teacher attrition. A major challenge for teacher education in the twenty-first century is to provide society with qualified teachers to teach and prepare the next generation of citizens. ![]()
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