Teacher Educators' Ideological Discourses

Abstract

This paper reports a qualitative study of teacher educators which investigated teacher educators' ideological discourses. A number of ideologies were found to inform the work of the teacher educators who participated in the study. While multiple ideologies are discernible, the social orientation tends towards conservatism rather than transformation. The paper concludes with the claim that the recognition of multiple conservative discourses allows more possibilities for change in teacher education than might be possible if the conservative social orientation was understood as a single hegemonic ideology.