“…This proposition was central to the initiation of the Monash science teacher preservice program in 1978. Consistent research findings about the needs and concerns of preservice students pointed to the importance of needdconcerns as students move through a preservice program (e.g., Fuller, 1969;Gunstone and Mackay, 1975). Initial needdconcerns, it is argued, are often largely about self (e.g., have I made the right decision about being a teacher?…”