As is the case globally, Australian schools that serve high-poverty communities most often employ the least experienced, least prepared teachers. Beginning with a discussion of poverty in Australia this chapter draws on 6 years of learnings from Australia’s National Exceptional Teachers for Disadvantaged Schools [NETDS] program to examine how social justice can be taught within a mainstream Initial Teacher Education program in an increasingly neoliberal climate where teacher education curriculum around social justice struggles to find a place within the current discourses of quality teaching and its preoccupations with standards, accountability, and high-stakes testing.
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Burnett, B., & Lampert, J. (2016). Re-thinking Teacher Quality in High-Poverty Schools in Australia (pp. 51–72). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21644-7_3
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