Faculty Publications
Publication Date
2012
Disciplines
Teacher Education and Professional Development
Abstract
This study employs Foucauldian concepts to analyse macro and micro contexts of publicly spoken and silent discourses describing ‘homosexuality,’ ‘education’ and ‘teacher’ in order to identify teacher subject positions available to preservice teachers. The macro context is analysed by tracing heteronormative discourses found in newspaper stories involving teachers and public schools that address conflicting views of homosexuality. The macro context analysis indicates two binary teacher subject positions: martyred (unemployed) teacher/silent (employed) teacher and sophisticated teacher/unsophisticated teacher. The micro context analysis is of preservice teachers' responses to And Tango Makes Three, a picture book by Richardson and Parnell. This analysis demonstrates how preservice teachers take up and negotiate teacher subject positions found in the macro analysis. Combined, the analyses allow the researchers to consider how preservice teachers' performances of teacher subjectivity open up possibilities for re-imagining new teacher subject positions and what this might mean for the practice of teacher educators.
Document Type
Accepted Version
Rights
This is an electronic version of an article published in Gender & Education, 2012, volume 24, issue 2, pages 159-175. Gender and Education is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2011.602333
Original Citation
Donna Kalmbach Phillips & Mindy Legard Larson
Preservice Teachers Respond to And Tango Makes Three:
Deconstructing Disciplinary Power and the Heteronormative in Teacher Education.
Gender and Education, 2012, volume 24, issue 2, pages 159-175
doi:10.1080/09540253.2011.602333
DigitalCommons@Linfield Citation
Phillips, Donna Kalmbach and Larson, Mindy Legard, "Preservice Teachers Respond to And Tango Makes Three: Deconstructing Disciplinary Power and the Heteronormative in Teacher Education" (2012). Faculty Publications. Accepted Version. Submission 5.
https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/educfac_pubs/5
Comments
This article is the author-created version that incorporates referee comments. It is the accepted-for-publication version. The content of this version may be identical to the published version (the version of record) save for value-added elements provided by the publisher (e.g., copy editing, layout changes, or branding consistent with the rest of the publication).