PETE: The political economy of teacher education

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Description

The Political Economy of Teacher Education project seeks to understand the inter-relationships between economic factors and political ideas in the cultural-historical contexts of teacher education internationally.

Key themes:

privatisation and the shadow state;
the relationships between policies, institutions and pedagogies;
the rhetorics of reform and the playfulness of policy entrepreneurs;
financial negotiation (bargaining) and changing relationships;
the meaning of ‘value’ with respect to novelty and scale in teacher education innovations; and
teacher education as academic work.
Project aims:

As a cluster of related projects, PETE has multiple aims, including but not limited to:

Understanding the rhetorical production of reform ideas and how these create funding opportunities for policy entrepreneurs. Examining the relationship between privatisation policies framed through discourses of equity and justice, the pedagogies of teacher education and professional identity of the school teacher. Analysing the emergence of new relationships of co-production between the state and teacher education enterprises, including the co-creation of shadow state structures. Theorising questions of novelty, scale and value in teacher education innovations internationally.
Period2023 → 2024
Held atSch of Curriculum Teaching & Inclus Edu
Degree of RecognitionInternational

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