Series: Keywords in Teacher Education

This book offers an important and timely critique of expertise, showing how it is a ‘keyword’ shaped by social, historical, and political debates about what counts as knowledge and truth, and who counts as experts. Using teacher expertise as an illustrative case, Jessica Gerrard and Jessica Holloway reflect on recent events, including COVID-19 and the climate crisis, to examine how...

Key to teacher education is the knowledge base of the teacher educator, and the ways in which knowledge is conceptualised. Knowledge explores how ideas about knowledge are used in teacher education to critically examine what knowledges are valued across research, policy and practice. The authors explore international and interdisciplinary perspectives on the nature of knowledge (and what counts as knowledge)...

This volume examines the multiple meanings of the term community in relation to teacher education research from an international perspective and presents examples of exemplary work that represent different strands of community-focused and community-based teacher education. As well as laying out and clarifying the landscape of existing work on including communities in teacher education, Ken Zeichner argues for a view...

Recognition of disadvantage is seen as crucial in preparing socially just teachers who can recognise and address inequities. This engaging guide provides innovative strategies to reflect on disadvantage. Coupled with its discursive partners, inclusion and diversity, trainee teachers are asked to engage with theories of disadvantage and are advised to recognise, support, and lead change for students who historically experience...

Issues of identity are paramount in addressing what it means to be a teacher and teacher educator in a diverse educational world, and Identity by Dr Sarah Steadman faces this challenge head on. The complex and contested view of teacher identity offers a lens for the exploration of the personal and the professional, informing both what teachers and teacher educators...

Discussions of quality dominate the field of teacher education. However, definitions of quality can vary enormously and are often vague and imprecise, relying on proxies for quality which make inaccurate assumptions about what matters in the education of teachers. Quality explores different ways in which quality can be defined and understood within teacher education, offering a way of categorising and...