ABSTRACT
According to several educational scholars, there is no alternative (TINA) to the present educational order built on common standards, competition, and test-based accountability. Others challenge the TINA doctrine of education and find it imperative to expand the historical and contemporary variety of goodness in schools. The purpose of this chapter is to contribute to the expansion of what might be thought of as quality teaching in our schools. The author does this by presenting some of the ideas of the Norwegian schoolteacher and headmaster Anna Sethne (1872–1961). By recovering Sethne’s ideas about teaching, the author presents an alternative understanding of teaching quality. It is done in the context of a discussion about the new educational order and the difficulty of challenging the system.
