On transitional space,unresolved conflicts,and an uncertain teacher education |
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| Authors: | Donna Kalmbach Phillips |
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| Institution: | 1. College of Education , Pacific University , Forest Grove, Oregon, USA dphillips@pacificu.edu |
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| Abstract: | This research project began as an effort to redesign a learning theory course as transitional space and evolved into an analysis of how unresolved conflict from younger learning selves influence graduate preservice teachers’ acquisition of teacher identity. The study draws upon work by Elizabeth Ellsworth on transitional space and Deborah P. Britzman’s work that deconstructs teacher education development. The data for the study were collected throughout a three‐semester graduate teacher education program and include narrative and formal writing using theoretical discourses. Foucauldian concepts of discourse analysis were used to interpret the initial data set; discourse analysis maps were then employed to further develop data interpretation. Two case study illustrations of preservice teachers resulted from this work. These illustrations demonstrate how transitional space is troubled space and the unevenness of teacher development. The study raises the question, ‘What will teacher education do with uncertainty?’ |
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| Keywords: | teacher development teacher identity subjectivity discourse |
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