Teacher Education Through Uncertainty and Crisis

Terri Seddon is Professor of Education at La Trobe University, Melbourne. She works in the tradition of comparative historical sociologies of education and has published in the fields of education policy and governance and adult and workplace learning. In this project on teacher education, she is exploring the effects of colliding professional points of view in partnership work. Her aim is to see how these points of view unfold through complex, overlapping and intersectional spatialities and temporalities of education and what they mean for the situated learning and professionalisation of educators.Alex Kostogriz is Professor in Languages and TESOL Education at the Faculty of Education, Monash University. He has previously held leadership positions at Deakin University and Australian Catholic University. He has published widely on the impact of neoliberal reforms on education and teacher education, in particular. Alex’s current research projects focus on the professional practice and ethics of language teachers, teacher education and experiences of beginning teachers.Joanna Barbousas is Dean of Education, La Trobe University, and former President of the Victorian Council of Deans of Education and former executive of the Australian Council of Deans. She brings a frontline policy perspective to this project on initial teacher education but also interrogates that practice-focused way of seeing professional practice through theories of visuality. Her research orientation historicises teacher education and contextualises its policy, practice with reference to the strategic opportunities that emerge with understandings of the temporal relations between past–present–future.

• 1. Introduction: Crises and challenges: Teacher education from the vantage point of 2020 2. Navigating uncertainties for new thought leadership: Preparing ‘classroom-ready’ or ‘catastrophe-ready’ teachers? 3. Network models in teacher education: Global logics, national reform and local tensions in Australia 4. Professional perspectives on the benefits of integrated partnerships for preservice teachers 5. Partnerships in times of teacher education ‘crises’: Affective atmosphere and the relational ethics of teacher educators 6. Inside the black box: Schools, universities and the precarious placement machine 7. Reclaiming the profession: Illuminating the invisible work of a teacher educator 8. The university in initial teacher education partnerships: Integrating, disintegrating or new beginning? 9. Teacher education beyond TEMAG requirements: Re-making history. Coda. Crises, Vantage Points and the Relational Politics of Teacher Education Partnerships – Concluding Remarks