ABSTRACT
In Chapter 2, the problematizing of the relationship between trainees’ personal moral and political values is set against the backdrop of international concerns about tensions between global neo-liberal market values in education and traditional values combined with rapid social change at the national level. How might international teacher educator discourse inform the philosophical and political theoretical bases for the integrity of the relationship between trainees’ personal moral and political values? The international case studies used in Chapter 2 to address this question are based on my first-hand experiences of working with Initial Teacher Education colleagues in Estonia, Finland and Japan. The international discourse and pedagogical examples discussed in this chapter reflect the ‘push-pull’ effect of globalization on teacher education and, as such, alongside the personal narrative in Chapter 1, provide insights into values-conflict, which contextualizes my applied principles for developing the relationship between trainee teachers’ values and their professional knowledge, as discussed in Chapter 3.
