Encountering Uncertainty: Reimagining Teacher Education

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Abstract

This paper asks: What becomes possible in teacher education when we let go of the demand for certainty? Drawing on the work of a curriculum collective in southern Chilean Patagonia, it explores theory not as abstract knowledge but as a practice of interruption, relation, and becoming. Grounded in decolonial and feminist frameworks, the paper critiques dominant models of teacher knowledge that privilege measurability, control, and universality. Instead, it offers a speculative, co-constructed inquiry rooted in artistic, affective, and place-based practices. Rather than presenting outcomes, the paper shares pedagogical fragments of moments of unlearning, dissonance, and dwelling with the unknown, and invites educators to consider uncertainty not as a deficit, but as a generative condition for reimagining education.

Author

• Andrea Lira, Universidad de Magallanes