ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores how teacher education in different ‘sites’ and forms of organisation provide different pathways to professionalism, and what this means for the development of the personal and professional self. It offers a look into the somewhat neglected field of teacher education, about which little is written compared to the extensive literature on teachers and schools in general. The book provides an understanding of how institutions are shaped by and shape particular ways of becoming and being. It explores and discusses an analytical framework that rethinks the cultural universes of the education institution as spaces offering possibilities and shaping individuals and explores teacher education in a way that avoids limited skills-, didactic- or pedagogy-based approaches, and instead focuses on professional becoming as something that is embedded in and initiated by the institutional context.
