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Lynn Paine is a professor of teacher education, and an adjunct professor of sociology and the Center for Gender in Global Context. Her work focuses on comparative and international education and the sociology of education, with an emphasis on the relationship between educational policy and practice, the links between education and social change and issues of inequality and diversity. Much of her work has involved the comparative study of teachers, teaching and teacher education, supported by research in China, the United States and England. Dr. Paine's work on learning in and from practice draws on her ongoing comparative research of teacher education. Her participation on "Learning from Mentors," a comparative study of mentored learning to teach, and her more recent NSF-funded leadership of a comparative case study of policies and practices that support beginning teacher learning will contribute to shaping the program. Having been visiting professor at several universities in China, Hong Kong and Singapore, Dr. Paine brings extensive experience in working across language, cultural and policy differences to talk about teacher education.