This book explores how educators are proactively working to reclaim teacher professionalism by engaging in exemplary practice and promoting quality education for all. It examines voices in contemporary Australian teacher education and how professionalism can contribute to achieving the multiplicity of purposes in education. The work of contemporary teachers and teacher educators and perceptions about it have changed significantly. Educators must work towards improving public and policy maker perceptions of teaching as a profession. Governments identify key issues linked to the quality of teachers, as presented in multiple inquiries, shifts in public policy and increasing regulation. Teacher educators make an important contribution in engaging in ongoing scholarship and debate that examine research and practice and speak back to managerial discourses on professionalism. It is through this work that educators shape and re-shape understanding of what it means to be a professional. weiterlesen