The Professional Practice of Teaching in Aotearoa New Zealand (Abbiss, Samu & Thrupp, in press) is a text for teachers, particularly to support new teachers or teachers new to teaching in Aotearoa New Zealand. The seventh edition, for which I am privileged to be a new editor, is the most substantial revision since the text first appeared in 1994. Used for three decades as a text within teacher education programmes, it can be understood to be part of the teacher education curriculum. As such, it is a curriculum artefact that can be analysed and critiqued.
