A warm welcome to this seventeenth issue of the TEAN journal where we present a thought-provoking range of ten papers to give food for thought to teacher educators in their practice. Many thanks to our excellent team of reviewers whose thorough and helpful response to the papers is so effective in guiding authors to success. Thanks also to our authors whose perseverance and hard work to get their message to you is so very much appreciated. As ever, thanks to Linda Shore, the publishing editor, for her work in producing the issue for us