For what purpose, schooling? We imagine this is a question almost all students, teachers, parents, and academicians have asked themselves (with varying degrees of conscious deliberation) at some time. For teacher educators, the answer to this question guides their efforts to prepare the next generation of teachers. Reasonable people—including teacher educators—disagree about the answer to this question and about the instructional implications of their answers (Goodlad, 1984; 1990). Although the question may seem abstract, the implications are very real.Those who believe the purpose of schooling is to train students to help maintain order and stability in our society would have vastly different approaches to teaching than those who see schools as laboratories where students learn to challenge unjust societal conditions so that they further a transformation to a more just and equitable society.