ABSTRACT
As civil servants, teachers are held accountable for their actions and performance. Moreover, the profession is committed to employing an interpretive and critical perspective to assist students in their understandings. Yet simple knowledge, or indeed the development of persuasive theories, is not the goal of our pedagogy. The aim of teaching is to have students recognize the relationship between knowledge and action and its consequences for good through a joint inquiry in the classroom. Understanding culture and the controversial issues raised by the clash of values seems to me to be the overarching point of education. I shall address this in connection with my own work within the teaching of a foundations of education class to initial teacher education students.
