Research into teacher professional development (PD) highlights the importance of scrutinizing features that make PD effective. While PD effectiveness is investigated in high-income countries, exploring the landscape of PD in low-income countries undergoing paradigm shifts in education is substantial as it may engender new perspectives or confirm…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine sustainability-related challenges in the two Western Balkan countries--Albania and Kosovo. It discusses the opportunities of local higher education institutions (HEIs) taking responsibility to tackle these challenges by providing professional development through science-society collaboration in…

The education system in Kosovo is in the phase of implementing the curricular reforms which aim at changing the teaching and learning approach. The new curriculum is a necessary innovation in pre-university education system and it has already started to be implemented in all schools in Kosovo, faces many difficulties, especially in achieving…