The 43rd annual conference A Future for All – Teaching for a Sustainable Society focused on critical questions concerning changes in society.  The conference theme emphasized teacher education and education as the solution to broad societal problems. The urgent need to understand the past for building tomorrow with new approaches in education puts important questions in focus regarding human wellbeing, social inclusion, environmental protection and globalization. These perspectives and approaches in research and practice in teaching and teacher education calls for a rethinking of what the educational sciences now consist of and how they are characterised. The central focus of the conference was the relevance of those rethinking perspectives.