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ABSTRACT
Teacher education in the time of the covid is unpredictable indeed. Fifty years ago, a major political overhaul of initial teacher education removed control from state education departments and began the transition of ITE to a university discipline. This led to the emergence of the teacher education professional, and the need for an association such as ATEA to maintain self-regulation and development of the field. While “on the ground” the daily practice of teacher education may not feel the same as it did in 1971, when we think about our possible futures, we argue that we must always take account of our pasts – and how they have shaped the social, political, and educational contexts we do and will experience. The things we do as teacher educators, along with how we do them, where we do them, and even who we do them with, are always changing: attention to our history is essential as we imagine shaping our future. We are indeed in an unpredictable position. We revisit our history here to argue that there is benefit now, in listening to advice from the past – and considering the possibilities of a road not yet taken.
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Notes
1. We gratefully acknowledge the work of Josephine May, Alyson Holbrook, and their colleagues at the University of Newcastle in 2009, who wrote Claiming a Voice: The First Thirty-Five years of the Australian Teacher Education Association, and which we found fascinating and helpful reading in preparing this paper.
2. Like teacher education, curriculum studies is often seen as a “sub-discipline” within education itself.
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Notes on contributors
Jo-Anne Reid
Jo-Anne Reid is a teacher educator and researcher who served as President of ATEA in 2003-2004, and is currently a Distinguished Member of the Association.
Graeme Hall
Graeme Hall is a Distinguished Member (formerly Fellow) of ATEA. He was president from 2000 to 2002, and is a former school principal and Manager of Teacher Education Policy at AITSL.