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This article reports on an interview study that explored how teacher educators across different disciplines anticipate the work that must be done to produce critical professionals to teach the new Australian curriculum. The authors summarize the differences indicated across the four curriculum areas sampled: English teacher educators seemed mostly concerned about political interference in educational matters; history teacher educators seemed mostly concerned about the status of knowledge in the proposed curriculum; a maths educators had concerns around the rationale for selection of curricular content; and science educators were concerned about personal relevance and the pedagogical implications of over-selection of content.

In this case study, the researcher investigated three pre-K teachers’ perceptions of mathematics curriculum at their school in west Alabama. Three themes emerged from the data (a) math resources for the pre-K classroom, (b( pushing beyond—thinking mathematically, and (c) instructional strategies used in the pre-K classroom. These themes revealed how all of the teachers’ perceptions of early childhood mathematics curriculum and instruction changed over the course of the study.