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Out of Time: Breaking the temporal logic of (unjust) teacher education
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Out of Time: Breaking the temporal logic of (unjust) teacher education

Stephen Heimans, Deborah Heck and Shelley Davidow
Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) Conference 2019 (Brisbane, Australia, 01-Dec-2019–05-Dec-2019)
Australian Association for Research in Education
2019
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Specialist Studies in Education
In this paper we argue that time is produced in initial teacher education in ways that limit our work to a focus on teacher qualification.The weight that is placed on the product/ qualification of the teaching degree means that as teacher educators we are forced to operate according to a logic of input-output, where there is no time for reflection on, or teaching about, the purposes of education- no time or space to take responsibility to do work that is 'beyond qualification'. We draw on Biesta's (2014) articulation of threefold interconnected domains of purpose in education: qualification, socialisation, subjectification, as a way to expand our thinking about teacher education against the temporal logic we operate within. In particular, the paper explores our deepening understanding of Biesta's notion of subjectification in the context of our work as teacher educators. The paper details our own developing practices in connection with subjectification. We build on this work to think about teaching as 'dissensus'- and this allows us to discuss the temporal logics that govern our work, and how we have sought to change them. Likewise, we will discuss the connections between subjectification, time and social justice.

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