“…Teacher professionalism is created through a complex process where students' motivations for self-recruitment is one aspect (Nesje et al, 2018) and ensuring a "healthy" drop-out from those not sufficiently motivated for or suited to the profession is another (Smeplass, 2018). Furthermore, a third factor is how teacher training also emphasizes more generic skillsets, such as collaboration (Løhre et al, 2020a(Løhre et al, , 2020b, leadership (Helstad & Møller, 2013), reflective pedagogy (Hovdenak & Wiese, 2017), value orientations (Løhre & Lund, 2020a;Løhre et al, 2016) and other important qualities of professional teachers in the Norwegian school system built to ensure inclusive education (Rapp & Corral-Granados, 2021). Hence, those who complete the teacher training have also undergone socialization and internalization of teacher norms during their training, which is not possible nor desirable to regulate through national policy.…”