ABSTRACT
The principles of the market and its managers are more and more the managers of policy and practices in education. Today teacher education in many parts of the world is engaged in a major transformation. Many of the pressures on teacher education today are a result of the spread of neo-liberal ideas and policies about markets, privatization, deregulation, and the private vs. public good from the world of elementary and secondary education into teacher education. Evetts distinguishes between two views of professionalism that now exist in knowledge-based work such as teaching: organizational professionalism and occupational professionalism. The solution to the teacher quality problem according to some is to deregulate teacher education and open the gates to individuals who have not completed a teacher education program prior to certification rather than to improve the conditions in public schools that are driving teachers out.
