ABSTRACT
Education is a cross-disciplinary field rather than a well-defined ‘learning’ system, and in this way teaching is viewed at the crossroad between knowledge acquisition, socialization and emancipation. Teachers interrogate themselves and their practices and need to mediate findings with wider social, moral and political issues of the day in order to secure a decent and vibrant democracy. Teachers tend to say at times that teacher education has become too abstract, general, and distant from everyday education. Also when student teachers are asked about their relationship to theory they tend to value practical knowledge higher than theoretical knowledge. Critique amongst teachers, student teachers and teacher educators as regards the role and place of theory and knowledge required are vital to pay regard to since, if people do not have a why, a rationale and cannot see their function, it renders the task of teaching meaningless and independent of good arguments.
