“…One way of doing this involves a rejection of the determinist views of ability that dominated the educational landscape during the twentieth century. There is an emerging literature (for example, Hart, 1996Hart, , 1998Hart et al, 2004Hart et al, , 2007 that addresses the subject of what might replace determinist views, and this literature makes suggestions that might usefully inform initial teacher education. Peters and Reid (2006) in the USA have been collecting examples of activities, called 'discursive practices', that teacher educators are developing in the hope of disrupting and challenging beliefs about concepts like normalcy, in order to bring about the necessary changes in thinking and practice.…”