Education experts from De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) were guests of honour at a reception marking 25 years of the book that has helped thousands of trainee teachers.
Dignitaries from across the globe joined Dr Sarah Younie and Dr Marilyn Leask at the House of Lords to celebrate the success of Learning to Teach in the Secondary School.
The DMU academics, along with Professor Susan Capel, are joint editors of the seventh edition - publisher Routledge's best-selling education book.
This latest volume was launched at the event hosted by Lord Jim Knight, previously Minister of State for Schools and Learners. A cake decorated with the book's front cover was the centrepiece.
Dr Younie, Reader in Education, Innovation & Technology, said: "I was delighted to be guest of honour in such illustrious company.
"I have edited other books in the Learning to Teach series, but this is the cornerstone. It provides the knowledge base for the teaching profession in the UK."
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The book gave Dr Younie and Dr Leask, DMU Visiting Professor of Education, the idea to develop their international education project, MESH (Mapping Educational Specialist knowHow).
MESH provides teacher practitioners all over the world with access to online research summaries.
Dr Younie said: "We were also invited to speak about developments in teacher education - looking at the past, present and future."
Among the 90 guests were dignitaries from America, Australia and developing countries, representatives from UNESCO and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, contributing authors and people from the publishing world.
Dr Younie said: "When you are editing a book you are dealing with authors from all over the UK and don't always get to meet them, so it was a pleasure to do so here."
The book is regularly updated to include the latest research and Dr Younie and her colleagues will begin work on the eighth edition within the next year.
She added: "It is a big piece of work - a 650-page book with multiple sections. It takes over a year from first draft to final version!"
Posted on Friday 10 June 2016