Taking “Asia Pacific” seriously: some uncomfortable questions about editing<i>APJTE</i>
Taking “Asia Pacific” seriously: some uncomfortable questions about editing<i>APJTE</i>
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认真对待“亚太地区”:有关编辑的一些令人不安的问题<i>APJTE</i>
DOI:
10.1080/1359866x.2022.2138039
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发表时间:
2022
影响因子:
2.6
通讯作者:
Biesta Gert
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作者:
Takayama Keita;Kettle Margaret;Heimans Stephen;Biesta Gert
This fifth issue of Volume 50 marks the end of our 50th year commemoration of APJTE. The first four issues featured a number of international scholars who helped us situate teacher education and research within the broader international context as well as Australian teacher educators who helped us reflect upon where the journal has come from and where it might be headed to in the future. This balance between the domestic (Australian) and the international reflects the fact that the Australian Teacher Education Association (ATEA), the “owner” of the journal, is a national professional association in Australia whose membership sits largely within the country, while APJTE is a regional and international scholarly journal. On the one hand, professional advocacy work for teachers and teacher educators would need to be grounded in the national political context. On the other hand, the intellectual work that underpins the advocacy work should be transnational. Part of the job as the editors of APJTE then is to navigate the right balance between these two orientations to address the interests of the ATEA members and the APJTE readers while generating productive tensions in the field of teacher education research both in and outside Australia.It is important to note, however, that the characterisation of ATEA as national and APJTE as regional and international was not firmly set in stone in their earlier days of existence. As detailed by Bob Teasdale (2022) in this issue, the ATEA was briefly known as the National Association of Teacher Education (NATE) in 1971 and then as the South Pacific Association of Teacher Education (SPATE) from 1972 to 1987. Reflecting this regional aspiration, this journal was also known as the South Pacific Journal of Teacher Education (SPJTE) until it was changed to APJTE in 1996. According to Teasdale (2022), Phillip Hughes, who became the first president of SPATE, was the Australian member of an International Higher Education Mission to the South Pacific, and its subsequent report led to the establishment of the University of the South Pacific (UPS) in Suva, Fiji, jointly owned and governed by the Pacific Island nations. Drawing on his connections with the School of Education at UPS, Hughes successfully steered the association and the journal towards advancing the interests of those who worked in the field of teacher education not just in Australia but in the broader South Pacific region. In the early period of SPATE and SPJTE, hence, the boundaries between the national and international were much more blurred, as many Australian-based scholars were involved in teacher education advocacy and research work on both the domestic (Australian) and the international (South Pacific) fronts.