“…However, New Public Management (NPM) hegemony in initial teacher education (ITE) policies has led to the re-evaluation of their professionalism. Over the last 40 years, NPM emphasis on quality assurance (QA) has shaped ITE policies in countries as diverse as Argentina, Brazil, Spain, England, and Canada (Gómez, 2017;Palmer, 2017;Rigas & Kuchapski, 2018;Zuluaga et al, 2017). Such a redefinition of professionalism is a well-documented phenomenon in international educational literature (Ball, 2003;Carvalho & Correia, 2018;Tseng, 2013).…”