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Teacher education faces a big problem, or rather a series of interconnected ones. If teachers want to be of service to current and future generations, they need to understand our neo-liberal and globalising world and the positioning of educators within it.
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Support staff in schools and early childhood teachers also belong to NZEI. There is another union for secondary teachers, the Post-Primary Teacher’s Association (PPTA).
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O’Neill (2015) links ‘Bring Your Own Device’ (BYOD) to the GERM agenda.
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Judgements take place after one, two or three years at school in the junior school and then at the end of each year level in years 4–8.
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Thrupp, M. (2017). Helping Teachers and School Leaders to Become Extra-Critical of Global Education Reform. In: Peters, M., Cowie, B., Menter, I. (eds) A Companion to Research in Teacher Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4075-7_27
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