The Futures of Teacher Education: Understanding the Micropolitics of the Desires That Surround Teacher Educators

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Abstract

Pre-service teachers (PSTs) and teacher educators (TEs) receive implicitly designed authoritative messages, utilized for micropolitics, from various sources about how PSTs and TEs should demonstrate effectiveness. Such normative messages can be perpetuated or resisted in teacher education through the desires acted upon. This study explores the affectively experienced subject-desirings of TEs and PSTs and how these desires could shape future teacher education. Using a scenario planning methodology, 15 PSTs participated in a survey, while 3 TEs from three different institutes participated in interviews. Causal layered analysis anchored on litany, social context, discourses, and metaphors was utilized to deconstruct and reimagine data collected. Utilizing key findings, alternative stories performatively illustrate what futures of teacher education could become through understanding current desires

Authors

• Corinne Barger, Universidad del Bio-Bio

• Jeasik Cho, Texas Tech University

• Scott Crawford