Handbook

Education, Knowledge and Society introduces preservice teachers (PSTs) to the broad and contested field of Australian education while engaging with historical, political and sociological lenses for inquiry – lenses that  provide  frameworks  for  analysis.  The  topic  inducts  PSTs  into  the  foundations  of  research  and  knowledge production, leading them to question who gets to produce formal knowledge, and whose knowledges ‘count’. All teachers participate in knowledge circulation through curriculum construction and pedagogies that may marginalise some students, making teaching inherently political. Education, Knowledge  and  Society  positions  PSTs  as  emergent  intellectuals  who  actively  pursue  and  examine  research while exploring how schools, centres and universities are situated within broader relations. Concepts that inform their professional development, include social justice, diversity, race, gender, class, and religion/spirituality. These concepts are presented as sites for the mediation of privilege via formal education, as well as vehicles for developing critical consciousness of the worlds we share. Education, Knowledge and Society works from a standpoint of Indigenous sovereignty, committing to Indigenous rights and anti‐racism pedagogies for the benefit of all students.