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Australian Journal of Teacher Education Volume 34 | Issue 1 Article 4 2009 Why Educators Should Bring an End to Pedagogy R. Scott Webster Monash University Recommended Citation Webster, R. Scott (2009) Why Educators Should Bring an End to Pedagogy, Australian Journal of Teacher Education : Vol. 34: Iss. 1, Article 4. Available at: .au/ajte/vol34/iss1/4 This Journal Article is posted at Research Online. .au/ajte/vol34/iss1/4 Australian Journal of Teacher Education Why Educators Should Bring an End to Pedagogy R. Scott Webster Monash University Scott.Webster@E.au Abstract: As Australia is moving towards a national curriculum there are also activities to nationalise teacher education. This involves various departments of state andfederal governments, third-party bodies funded by government such as the Curriculum Corporation and Teaching Australia, and non-government organisations such as the Business Council of Australia. These agencies are producing models and principles which aim on establishing standards of best practice for how they want teachers to teach. Within all of this activity the term ‘pedagogy’ is often employed to represent aspects of these best practices. Examples include ‘productive pedagogies’, ‘new pedagogies’, ‘pedagogical content knowledge’ and ‘pedagogical strategies’. However these are all means only without any end purposes which identify them as being valuable for education. In this paper I will argue that in order to have educative value teachers themselves must exercise a degree of professio