Quality of Education and Teacher Learning

This paper, developed for a study under the EQUIP1 Leader Award of teacher professional development and its relation to education quality in Namibia, reviews a selection of the literature that places teachers at the center of creating educational quality. The paper summarizes two distinct but intersecting literature areas – the literature on quality of education, focusing on the role of teachers, schools, and communities, and the literature on teacher learning, focusing on localized professional development programs.