The aporia of undecidability and the responsibility of teacher |
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| Authors: | Melanie D Janzen |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.janzenmd@cc.umanitoba.ca |
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| Abstract: | Theories of subjection, the discourses that both subject and constitute identity have been useful in illustrating the becoming of teacher as always already subjected to being teacher in particular ways, constituted by the circulating discursive norms. This paper draws on a qualitative research project to consider the fissures within subjection, considering what might provoke the subject to enact teacher differently than the subjective forces prescribe. Drawing on poststructuralism and psychoanalytic theory, this paper theorizes a significant moment within the research project to consider an aporia in which the teaching subject is faced with both undecidability as well as responsibility, thus contributing to the theorizing of teacher identity at the intersection of curriculum theory. |
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| Keywords: | teacher identity subjection poststructuralism psychoanalytic theory curriculum theory |
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