ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses on six-year experience of author being a dean in education. She has met with state and federal politicians and chief bureaucrats for the New South Wales State Department of Education. She has also been actively involved in a range of university committees, including Academic Promotions, Academic Senate, University Council, selection committees, gender equity committees, and just about every faculty and school committee there is. She has broad knowledge of the sector, a reasonably good network of contacts, a genuine passion for teacher education which is a major component of the school's operation, an eye for detail, a capacity to juggle multiple agendas and encouragement from colleagues and family. She has consulted deans within and beyond Newcastle, and within and outside education, who offer a range of cautions and advice. She concludes with Foucault, who said: Her point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad.
