Teacher Preparation in the Shadow of Loss
The Blurring of Transacting, Transforming, and Transgressing
Keywords:
teaching to transgress;, transactional education, transformative education, narrative, autoethnography, lossAbstract
In this narrative, autoethnographic piece, the author contends with the constructs of transactional, transformational, and transgressive forms of educational engagement and teaching, all coming to the fore in a time of tremendous sorrow, loss, stress, and transition. Looking to critical scholars and their works for guidance, the author describes the path into and through a course with teacher candidates, taken on mid-term after the unexpected death of a close colleague.
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