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This chapter places the current position of teacher educators into context by discussing relevant elements of its history. It sheds some light on the issues affecting the professional lives of the men and women who have held authority positions in teacher education at different times. The chapter traces the movement of teacher education from largely single-sex monotechnics into the wider world of the academy. This meant that teacher educators now faced the dual demands of their different functions. With the move into the wider academy, there was a gendered shift in authority roles, with men becoming predominant in leadership positions. Teacher education is, however, positioned increasingly by government legislation further away from the academy and closer to the practical world of the classroom (Furlong, Education: An anatomy of the discipline. London: Routledge, 2013).
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Thompson, B. (2017). The Particular Story of the Management of Teacher Education. In: Gender, Management and Leadership in Initial Teacher Education. Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-49051-3_4
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