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Unfinished Business examines developments in Australian teacher education from 1987 to 1992. As Knight, Bartlett and McWilliam say in Chapter 7 of the book:

In this book we have offered critiques of the main features of contemporary teacher education policy... We have raised questions about its top-down and prescriptive formulative; we have attacked its attempts to rationalise and standardise content, processes and products; we have challenged the knowledge and credentials of those who have presumed to speak to and for teacher educators and teachers... We have outlined the more salient features of an enabling teacher education policy for Australia in the twenty-first century... We have suggested forms of education which will enable the development of teachers as professional, committed to the public good and the development of an informed citizenry for a democratic society.

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Contributions

Introduction

1. The Political Economy of the Teacher Education Industry, 1987-1992
   John Knight
2. Re-Forming Teacher Education: The Unfinished Task
   John Knight, Robert Lingard, Leo Bartlett
3. One Nation: The Regulation of Teacher Quality and the Deregulation of the Teaching Profession
   Leo Bartlett
4. Training Competent Teachers for the Education Industry?
   Erica McWilliam, John Knight
5. Standards versus Standardisation: What Kind of National Teaching Council for What Kind of Professional Development?
   Paige Porter
6. Student Talk/Expert Talk: Reconstructing Contemporary Teacher Education Needs
   Erica McWilliam
7. The Road Ahead: Refashioning Australian Teacher Education for the Twenty-first Century
   John Knight, Erica McWilliam, Leo Bartlett

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