EDFE 2100 Lecture 6: Lecture 6 Readings
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Contradictory realities in learning to teach. in deborah. Britzman, practice makes practice: a critical study of learning to teach (revised edition, pp. Such a commitment requires implicitly the teacher"s presence and our own capacity to listen to the teacher"s voice. For in considering what teaching does to teachers, our concern is with how the activity of teaching expresses something about the subjectivities of teachers and determines ways teachers come to construct their teaching identities. This present study is concerned with such problems. (25) In its more specific sense, this study explores how our teaching selves are constituted in the context of learning to teach, and how the selves we produce constrain and open the possibilities of creative pedagogies. In focusing on the ways teachers construct themselves as they are being constructed by others, this study does not provide the reader with grand solutions about the best way to learn to teach.