1st Edition

Historical Consciousness within Teacher Education Interdisciplinary Synergies in a Neoliberal World

Edited By Nick Mead Copyright 2026
216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

This collection examines the emerging interdisciplinary possibilities at the intersection of the history of education, teacher education and professional practice, responding to the urgent need to confront the influence of neoliberalism on teacher training across Europe and beyond. Building on collaborative work undertaken in Italy, Spain, Turkey and England, it argues that historical... Read more

Part One

Introduction: Historical consciousness speaking truth to power

Nick Mead

Part Two – Interdisciplinary synergies within European university faculties of education

Chapter One: Educating from creative resistance: Arts education and historical consciousness in teacher training in the face of neoliberal curricula,

Vicente Blanco & Salvador Cidras

Chapter Two: Historical consciousness and pedagogy of place in teacher education,

Eugenio Otero-Urtaza

Chapter Three: How to strengthen primary teachers’ awareness of their professional role spanning history and autobiographical memory

Gianfranco Bandini & Chiara Martinelli.

Chapter Four:  Training teachers through memories: historical consciousness in teacher education,

Luca Bravi & Stefano Oliviero 

Chapter Five: Will the UK Government’s Initial Teacher Training Market Review Report provide the catalyst for a renewed values-based dialectic in teacher education?

Nick Mead

Part Three Interdisciplinary synergies within school-centred teacher training in England

Chapter Six: Can research contribute to the development of historical and critical consciousness through narrative in school-centred teacher training ?

Nick Mead

Chapter Seven:  Is there evidence in school centred initial teacher training of synergies between provider and trainee narratives of historical consciousness which can challenge neoliberal policy?

Nick Mead with Chloe Hindmarsh, Simon Parton, Helen Angell, Ruth Argyle, Gemma Molyneux, Michelle Moxham, Treena Philpotts and Rebecca Turner-Loisel

Part Four: Conclusion: Interdisciplinary synergies of hope for teacher educators and pre- and in-service teachers   

Chapter Eight: Interdisciplinary synergies of hope sustaining individual teachers in their work

Ece Cihan Ertem & Nick Mead

Biography

Nick Mead is Associate Lecturer in Education at Oxford Brookes University, UK.