ABSTRACT
This chapter explores into perspective the stories, places, people and processes of becoming presented so far, and discusses the insights gained from them in a larger perspective. It also explores education as a societal phenomenon and then links it to issues of educational politics and the privatisation of teacher education. Teacher education institutions are not isolated islands with their own curricula and subjects, but part of the cultural continents in which they are integrated. Education is a materialisation of a culture’s way of living and not just a preparation for living it, according to Jerome Bruner. Critical education argues that education must emancipate and socialise people into being political subjects who are aware of what happens to them and around them. Privatisation of schooling in the South is a critical theme in recent literature, but as restricted to a small body of work on schools rather than teacher education.
