Expertise: Keywords in Teacher Education

Review “While this is a valuable contribution to the philosophy of expertise, it is not only for philosophers. This is an excellent book for both research and teaching purposes, with something to offer those looking for a comprehensive introduction to expertise as it has been theorized across philosophy, psychology, and sociology, as well as those of us who specialize in these disciplines and could use some help escaping our epistemic bubbles and echo chambers.” ―Metapsychology Product Description This book offers a distinctive perspective on keyword expertise by positioning teacher expertise within broader social and political debates surrounding the constitution of knowledge, truth and experts. Bringing debates surrounding teacher expertise into conversation with wider debates surrounding expertise, Jessica Gerrard and Jessica Holloway reflect on recent events, including COVID-19 and the climate crisis, to show that expertise is not a neutral, objective or fixed idea that is easily definable. Rather than seek to understand expertise simply in relation to pedagogical or curriculum practices in the classroom, they demonstrate that any account of expertise must first reckon with its social and political positioning and how it creates boundaries between who is an expert and who is not.Drawing on international research, this book places experience within a global context, attending to the ways in which teacher expertise itself is subject to struggles and contestations in power in different ways across different national and sub-national contexts. Through illustrative examples taken from this research, this book shows how expertise is as much about who is understood to be an expert, and who is understood not to be. Expertise sheds timely light on the contradictory and ambivalent practices of expertise. About the Author Jessica Gerrard is Assistant Dean for Diversity and Inclusion and Senior Lecturer in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education at University of Melbourne, Australia.Jessica Holloway is Senior Research Fellow and ARC DECRA Fellow in the Institute for Learning Sciences and Teacher Education, Research Centre for Digital Data and Assessment in Education at Australian Catholic University, Australia.Viv Ellis is Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Australia.