This research report presents 10 papers offering views of Finnish, Swedish, British, Danish, and United States educators on teaching and teacher education. The essays are as follows: (1) "The Missing Content in Teaching: Focus on What Teachers Reflect Upon While They Are Teaching" (Mikael Alexandersson); (2) "What Is Reflection? On Reflection in the Teaching Profession and Teacher Education" (Jan Bengtsson); (3) "Curiosity, Interest, and Intrinsic Motivation: A Conceptual Analysis" (Reijo Byman); (4) "The Development of Initial Teacher Education: Insights from Research on Learning to Teach" (James Calderhead); (5) "The Role of School Practice in Teacher Education" (Juhani Hytonen); (6) "Educational Knowledge and Reality" (Jujani Jussila); (7) "The 'Deutsche Didaktik' and the American Research on Teaching" (Pertti Kansanen); (8) "Concepts of Freedom in Danish School Legislation" (Sven Erik Nordenbo); (9) "The Denial of Change in the Process of Change: Systems of Ideas and the Construction of National Evaluations" (Thomas S. Popkewitz); and (10) "Evaluation of a Prototype Teacher Enhancement Program on Science Performance Assessment" (Maria Araceli Ruiz-Primo, Richard J. Shavelson, and Gail P. Baxter). (ND)