ABSTRACT
The neoliberal assault on public education impacts children, schools, and teachers at every level, often in explicitly devastating ways. Fast-track programs, with excessive regulation on the one hand, deregulated alternative certification programs on the other, and surveillance through hyperaccountability, not only threaten the space we have, but distract us from critical reflection and the development of teacher education as liberatory practice. Under the accountability and standards regime, teacher educators are cast as implementers of curriculum, social justice teacher education is marginalized, and theoretical, political, and ethical knowledge are cast aside in the name of outcome measures. This chapter argues that acknowledges how teacher education, like K-12 education, has always reproduced race and class inequality and resistance that boldly defends the work of critical social-justice education. Critical social justice teacher education is an essential part of the resistance to the neoliberal assault.
