ABSTRACT
According to Bourdieu, a key feature of the ‘habitus’ of an occupational group is the particular knowledge and expertise that pertains to that occupation. Implicit, therefore, is the idea that its particular expert knowledge is central to a group’s professional identity. It is a key part of what binds individual selves into a recognisable occupational group, and of what helps distinguish them from other occupational groups. This chapter focusses on what the teacher educators in the study regarded as their distinctive professional knowledge and proficiencies; on what they felt they needed to ‘know’ and ‘be able to do’ in order to be effective and distinguishable as teacher educators.
