Faculty Publications
Publication Date
2008
Disciplines
Elementary Education and Teaching | Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Junior High, Intermediate, Middle School Education and Teaching
Abstract
This research addresses the complexities of identity development of elementary and middle school preservice literacy teachers during their teacher education program using a poststructural feminist theoretical lens. This research investigated two questions: 1) How do preservice teachers develop their identity as teachers of literacy in the midst of authoritative discourses? 2) What kinds of strategies and discourses do preservice literacy teachers use to negotiate the competing discourses of literacy during student teaching? The results indicated that the identities of the preservice literacy teachers were in transition during their teacher education program and authoritative discourses were at work constituting their subjectivities throughout this process. These discourses were heard as the preservice literacy teachers used deconstructive and reconstructive literacy discourses and strategies from their personal literacy biographies, literacy coursework, and student teaching practices. Their agency as literacy teachers was demonstrated through the strategies they used to negotiate and perform their identities during student teaching—working within and outside of the literacy structures of their cooperating teachers’ classrooms. The research also indicated the power of time and space in relation with others, as a means for continued identity transformation.
Document Type
Published Version
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Original Citation
Mindy Legard Larson
Preservice Literacy Teachers in Transition: Identity as Subjectivity.
The International Journal of Learning, 2005, volume 15, issue 6, pages 203-210
DigitalCommons@Linfield Citation
Larson, Mindy Legard, "Preservice Literacy Teachers in Transition: Identity as Subjectivity" (2008). Faculty Publications. Published Version. Submission 2.
https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/educfac_pubs/2
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Elementary Education and Teaching Commons, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons, Junior High, Intermediate, Middle School Education and Teaching Commons
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