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Deconstructing the Carter Review: competing conceptions of quality in England’s ‘school-led’ system of initial teacher education
Abstract
The commitment to establish a ‘school-led’ system of teacher education in England, announced by the Coalition Government in 2011 and relentlessly pursued thereafter, represented a radical departure from previous kinds of initial teacher education partnership. While it is entirely consistent with a neoliberal agenda, with its strong regulatory framework and appeal to market mechanisms, it is also underpinned by a particular conception of teaching as a craft – ‘best learnt as an apprentice observing a master craftsman or woman’. In 2014, the government established a Review of Initial Teacher Training, led by a primary school head teacher, Sir Andrew Carter. This signalled the recognition of teacher education as a ‘policy problem’, adopting Cochran-Smith’s term. The ensuing report, published in early 2015, was more nuanced than might have been anticipated, although a number of profound tensions emerge from a closer analytical reading; four of these tensions are similar to those previously defined by Cochran-Smith and two are newly emergent. This paper identifies and discusses these tensions as they appear in the Carter Review and relates them to wider debates about the links between teaching, teacher education, evidence and research and to policy-making processes in education.
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“A key aim of these reforms has been to increase regulatory control over the ITE sector through centralised curricular and a focus on 'accountability' and 'professional standards' (Alexander & Bourke, 2021;Churchward & Willis, 2019;Mutton et al., 2017) which are consistent with policy reforms beyond England.”
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“…these reforms has been to increase regulatory control over the ITE sector through centralised curricular and a focus on ‘accountability’ and ‘professional stand-ards’ (Alexander & Bourke, 2021; Churchward & Willis, 2019; Mutton et al., 2017) which are consistent with policy reforms beyond England.”
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- Authors
- Mutton, T., Burn, K., & Menter, I.
- Affiliations
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Mutton, Trevor
- Venue
- Journal of Education Policy
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2016-08-08
- Volume
- 32
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 14-33
- ISSN
- 0268-0939 (ISSN-L)
- 1464-5106
- OpenAlex
- W2518832669
- Cited by
- 65
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 11 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 3
- FWCI
- 29.59
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Education Policy (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
- Social Sciences › Education › Education Pedagogy and Practices
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Global Educational Policies and Reforms
- Keywords
- initial teacher education, teacher education quality, policy tensions, teaching as a craft, neoliberalism in education, education policy-making
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