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In this chapter, we explore how teacher education has been shaped by its engagement with policy and government. We look at three levels—the meta-, meso- and micro-levels of teacher education, and track through those the ways in which education, teachers and teacher educators have been impacted in terms of power hierarchies, professionalism and identity. Integral to this is a consideration of the significance of access to a professional discourse. Finally, the implications of the politicisation of education for career survival by established and early career teachers is considered with particular reference to the dilemmas with which teacher educators are faced, and ways in which they might respond to those.
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Schuck, S., Aubusson, P., Burden, K., Brindley, S. (2018). Politics of Education: Tensions and Paradoxes. In: Uncertainty in Teacher Education Futures. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8246-7_3
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