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Barnes, Melissa; Cross, Russell – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2020
Mounting criticism suggests that the recent introduction of a 'gatekeeping' test to improve the quality of teachers in Australia--the Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education (LANTITE)--has had limited success in achieving its aim. Shaped by a discourse of inputs on how teacher quality might be achieved ('quality in, quality out'),…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Teacher Improvement, Teacher Effectiveness
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Sachs, Judyth – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2016
It is now more than 10 years after the publication of the monograph, "The Activist Teaching Profession," which, at the time, could be described as a call to action for the teaching profession. I reflect here on how far has the profession progressed in responding to that call to action. The idea of a "call to action" could be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professionalism, Teaching (Occupation), Professional Education