Open Access#12018
The Knowledge Legitimation Crisis and Competency-Based Teacher Education Curricula
Behind the current search for a method of teacher education that will yield consistent, predictable outputs, lies the deeper issue of who has legitimate substantive and procedural control over teacher education in advanced capitalist democracies. An examination of current trends in new processes of teacher education suggests that the legitimacy of university control over teacher education is in serious question and that the power relationship between the university and the political economic sector is being redefined.