International Teacher Education Research Collective

Teacher education and its Discontents. Politics, Knowledge, and Ethics is a unique collection of essays from researchers and teacher educators from around the world. Presenting innovative approaches to education theory, critical policy analyses, de-colonializing reformulations of teacher education, and a “standard of dissensus” for teacher education, this volume is an important contribution to contemporary education discourse.

This first volume from the International Teacher Education Research Collective (ITERC), illustrates common themes and problems in politics of education – in particular as regards standardization, marketization, governance of-, and policy in education – with both country-specific cases and generally formulated theoretical discussions.

The book has three primary aims: to illustrate and critique the ethical, epistemological, and political discourses shaping teacher education; to identify and unravel the entanglements of politics, knowledge, and ethics in teacher education in a range of international settings; and, to revitalize teacher education by proposing and exploring alternative modes of thought and practice. Addressing an audience including (but not limited to) education researchers, education theorists, Ph.D. and Master-students in education, and teacher educators, this volume can contribute to further reflection and in-depth discussion in education, to the formulation of new areas for educational research, and for critical resistance to hegemonic discourses of education