PETE: The Political Economy of Teacher Education
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 include 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.
Principal investigators
- Professor Viv Ellis, King's College London
- Professor David Spendlove, University of Manchester
- Professor Tom Are Trippestad, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences
- Associate Professor Lauren Gatti, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Investigators
- Warwick Mansell, Education Uncovered
- Sarah Steadman, King's College London
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
Our Partners
Western Norway University of Applied Sciences
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Education Uncovered
Affiliations
Funding
Funding Body: Centre for Innovation in Teacher Education and Development
Amount: N/A
Period: January 2018 - January 2021