Confirming and assuring within the unspoken: the influence of Joe L. Kincheloe in additional language education and teacher education in Australia

We describe our circumstances in the teaching of languages other than English and English within the Australian policy environment. The politics of language are juxtaposed to economic policy and vocationalism, as the turning tide of economic prospects determined which foreign language was important to teach and learn. As novices who learned the hard way about the politics and Politics of education, we lament that we did not encounter the works of Joe L. Kincheloe during our teacher education preparation programs.