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As the university's role has become focused on supporting economic development and global competitiveness, the macro-political context is at odds with longstanding agendas of professional responsibility and self-governance in teacher education. In this policy context, the authors argue that teacher educators need to engage in rigorous practice-based inquiry that addresses issues of policy and governance, particularly those that tend toward direct government intervention or professional governance.

In this article, the author explores how Michel Foucault’s notion of the “care of the self” might provide a conceptual basis for resistance to the normalizing practices and disciplinary power associated with high-stakes accountability and resulting educational practices. The author suggests that to shift attention from limited notions of the self toward expansive and creative possibilities for constituting the self requires clarity on what it means by the educated self in a context of accountability.

The article explores factors facilitating or impeding completion of online group work in a virtual graduate school of education program. Open-ended questions were asked about individual accountability, affective team support, the presence of a positive group leader, consensus building skills, and clear instructions. Recommendations were given for group projects in online environments.

This article addresses the ideological challenges and opportunities presented by the European Commission’s commitment to the identification of key competencies for education and training. Furthermore, it examines the development of indicators which can be used to monitor and evaluate progress towards these competences across the European Union. The construction of ‘competence’ is an ideological and political act, since it is an indication of a particular understanding of the ‘good life’, which may be different when viewed from within a social justice narrative or a neo-liberal narrative. The notion of ‘meta-competence’ is explored as a means of transcending the binary tension between an economic and a social narrative.