ABSTRACT

While traditionally identified as a practice-based endeavour, the many dimensions of teacher education raise important philosophical issues that emphasise the centrality of ethics to questions of relationality and professional practice. This second volume of the Educational Philosophy and Theory reader series demonstrates the continuing relevance of philosophical approaches to the field of teacher education.

The collection of texts focuses on a wide range of topics, including teacher education in a cross-cultural context, the notion of unsuccessful teaching, democratic teacher education, the reflective teacher, the ethics and politics of teacher identity, and subjectivity and performance in teaching. Chapters also explore teacher education based on experiential learning as ‘experience’, demonstrating the continuing relevance of philosophical approaches to the field.

In Search of Subjectivities will interest academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of philosophy of education, philosophy, education, educational theory, teacher education, experiential philosophy, ethics, policy and politics of education, and professional practice.

chapter |14 pages

Introduction The Birth of Educational Research, Teacher Education and the Turn to Practice

From Practitioner Knowledge and Communities of Practice to Evidence-Based Policy and Practice

chapter |8 pages

In Search of Subjectivity

A Reflection of a Teacher Educator in a Cross-cultural Context

chapter |12 pages

Exemplary Teacher Induction

An International Review

chapter |18 pages

Deterritorializations

Putting Postmodernism to Work on Teacher Education and Inclusion

chapter |17 pages

Teachers and Teaching

Subjectivity, Performativity and the Body

chapter |18 pages

Miss, What's My Name?

New Teacher Identity as a Question of Reciprocal Ontological Security