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ol-based Partnerships in Teacher Education A Research Informed Model for Universities, Schools and Beyond

School-based Partnerships in Teacher Education

Linda Hobbs Coral Campbell Mellita Jones •



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School-based Partnerships in Teacher Education A Research Informed Model for Universities, Schools and Beyond

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Editors Linda Hobbs Deakin University Geelong, VIC, Australia

Mellita Jones Australian Catholic University Ballarat, VIC, Australia

Coral Campbell Deakin University Geelong, VIC, Australia

ISBN 978-981-13-1794-1 ISBN 978-981-13-1795-8 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1795-8

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This book is dedicated to Dr. Jeff King who started the journey with us in person, and finished the journey in our hearts. His spirit we take with us, and to him we dedicate everything that emerges.

Foreword

Becoming ‘Classroom Ready’ Through Partnerships Recent developments in Australian teacher education have focused on making teachers ‘classroom ready’ (TEMAG 2014), but although such a notion is problematic (Mills and Goos 2017), the TEMAG implementation strategy has mandated that teacher education programme have school–university partnerships in order to be accredited (White et al. 2018). This book predates the mandate and provides sound evidence for the benefits for all in having such partnerships, as well as adding some much-needed theorising about partnerships through the STEPS Interpretive Framework. In this, I commend the contributors for recognising that a model is not one true story and that a model only comes aliv