This book contains six papers: "Studying the Teachers Life and Work" (Ivor F. Goodson); "Mindful Orientation in Teachers' Pedagogical Thinking" (Jukka Husu); "The Way Thinking is Once Again" (Pertti Kansanen); "Preparing Prospective Elementary Teachers to Teach Mathematics: A Problem-Solving Approach" (Frank K. Lester, Jr. and Diana V. Lambdin); "Individual Differences in the Criteria of Optimal Readability of Textbooks" (Jan Mikk); and "The Pathic of Pedagogical Practice" (Max van Manen). (All papers contain references.) (SM)