<p>Teacher education programmes seek to provide student teachers with the knowledge, disposition and expertise to provide quality teaching and</p><p>learning in a diverse and challenging school context. Learning to Teach in post-apartheid South Africa: Student Teachers' Encounters with Initial Teacher Education addresses the complexities of teacher education programmes in preparing students to teach through empirically informed research.</p><p>It adds to the knowledge about teacher education, contributing critical understanding of education and the schooling system. The book provides</p><p>important insights to deepen researchers, academics, teacher education providers, policy-makers, and students' understanding of the importance to address equity, redress, and quality in South African education in a postapartheid era. This book further helps to build student teachers' capacities</p><p>to work creatively and to become active and critical agents of transformation. It ultimately outlines the challenges faced in designing and delivering</p><p>successful Initial Teacher Education programmes, and the impact this has on delivering equitable and quality education.</p>