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The complexities of teaching, teachers, and of teacher education are explored using some of the concepts previously introduced together with the important role of intersubjectivity and caring in classrooms. School leaders need to trust teachers and provide them with professional autonomy to allow their own unique potentials to flourish.
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Cunningham, C.A. (2014). Teachers and Teaching. In: Systems Theory for Pragmatic Schooling: Toward Principles of Democratic Education. The Cultural and Social Foundations of Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137449320_7
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