The Teacher Cannot Be Positioned: A New Cultural Myth of Decolonized Social Studies Teaching

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Abstract

This paper builds on Deborah Britzman’s (1986, 2003) three cultural myths of teaching by proposing a fourth cultural myth: the teacher cannot be positioned. This myth explains the impossibilities that emerge from the tensions between upholding cultural myths of teaching and pursuing an orientation toward anticolonial social studies.

Author

• Kim Edmondson, University of Alberta