Competition, economic rationalization, increased surveillance, and attacks on diversity: Neo-liberalism and the transformation of teacher education in the U.S.

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On Teacher Hope, Sense of Calling, and Commitment to Teaching. (2012, background): “One wonders, however, if their com- 22 mitment is sustainable as the work of teaching changes under the pressures of ever more hostile and aggressive accountability measures (Nichols & Berliner, 2007; Zeichner, 2010).”
The struggle for the soul of teaching and teacher education in the USA (2014, background): “What exists now is the result of the ascendance worldwide of an effort to privatise public services including education and teacher education and the growing influence of philanthropy and venture capitalists on public policy in education (Zeichner 2010a; Zeichner and Pena-Sandoval 2015).”
The Challenge and Promise of Complexity Theory for Teacher Education Research (2014, background): “…ourselves included, have long characterized teacher education as a moral, ethical, values-centered, and political enterprise with serious implications for social justice (e.g., Cochran-Smith, 1999, 2010; Hansen, 2008; King, 2008; Ladson-Billings, 1999; Villegas & Lucas, 2001; Zeichner, 2010).”