The (Im)Possibility of Good Enough in Teaching and Teacher Education

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Abstract

This paper analyzes the (im)possibilities of performing the good enough teacher within the current neoliberal educational landscape. Through a narrative of her own teaching experiences, the author discusses how exposure to and understanding of poststructuralism proved to be transformative in her daily life and served to influence her pedagogy as a classroom teacher. This paper contributes to the literature in three ways: It (1) responds to the critique of poststructuralism as inaccessible and inapplicable to daily life, (2) argues that teacher educators provide pre-service and practicing teachers with opportunities to deconstruct ways they are produced in their daily lives, and (3) disrupts the privileging of practice over theory so pervasive in teacher education.

Author

• Elizabeth Wurzburg, University of Georgia