NOMADIC LEARNING TO TEACH: RECOGNITION, RUPTURE AND REPAIR

1. The most significant challenge for teacher educators is accepting
that the aspiration to be inclusive creates a number of
responsibilities which pull them, and their students, in different
directions. These divergent responsibilities produce tensions
because they are assumed to be resolvable or reducible to one
choice but might be framed as a series of double duties or
‘APORIAS’ (Derrida, 1992, p. 22),
both of which must be fulfilled:
How can student teachers
develop as autonomous
professionals and learn to
depend on others for
support and collaboration?
How can student
teachers be helped to
understand the features
of particular impairments
and avoid disabling
individual students with
that knowledge?
How can student teachers be
supported in maximising
student achievement and
ensuring inclusivity?
What assistance can be given
to student teachers to enable
them to deal with the
exclusionary pressures they
encounter and avoid
becoming embittered or
closed to possibilities for
inclusivity in the future?
How can student
teachers be helped to
acquire and
demonstrate the
necessary competences
to qualify as a teacher
and to understand
themselves as in an
inconclusive process of
learning about others?
NOMADIC LEARNING TO TEACH:
RECOGNITION, RUPTURE AND
REPAIR
The rigid content driven programmes of teacher education,
with their special education orientation, could be replaced
through the process of
DETERRITORIALIZATION.
The four strands of this activity, developed by Deleuze and
Guattari (1987), could be undertaken as a collective task
within Higher Education Institutions or by individuals.