ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that insights based on a study into the private social media interactions of a large group of pre-service teachers undertaking teacher education in England. The study succeeds in retaining privacy for the participants through careful design of methodology that took account of issues of confidentiality and anonymity, and also was heavily reliant on the trust and positive relationship that developed between the researcher and the participants. Student voice in teacher education is seen as something relatively new, although it is used more widely than in other subject areas within Higher Education Institutions. In terms of teacher education and teacher provision, the UK coalition government of 2010–2015 introduced mainstream changes to teacher training in England through an openly declared shift in marketisation of teacher education provision through the School Direct initiative. The term habitus itself is Aristotelian and Bourdieu appropriates it to describe a specific set of dispositions.
