Research in teacher education and innovation at schools: Cooperation, competition or two separate worlds?

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The plenary lecture builds on the plenary lecture from ICME10 (Survey team 3). The lecture defined areas that had attracted little attention of researchers but were crucial (not only) for teacher education. It also comes out of discussions on ICMI Study 15 and recommendations formulated in these discussions. The lecture is also significantly informed by the work of Working Groups at CERME conferences since CERME1 until CERME8, partially also taking into account information from CERME9. The field of research in mathematics teacher education has changed considerably over the years since ICME10, which asks for a new definition of issues and trends. The goal of the lecture is to point out some trends in this area of research, especially in the field of cooperation between teacher education and innovations at school.The first part of the text focuses on trends in current research into teacher education and practice. The goal of this part is not an exhaustive overview but indication of the main trends in the research domain. The second part of the text presents a more detailed discussion of several current research areas, their theoretical backgrounds as well as applications of their findings in teacher education and everyday school practice.