The Educator and the Ordinary: A Philosophical Approach to Initial Teacher Education

by Elizabeth O'Brien

This book creates a unique discursive environment to consider how initial teacher education can support student teachers in practical and personal senses, in what they can do and who they are. What is it to care? To develop our voice? To educate in beautifully risky ways? Engaging with the philosophy of Stanley Cavell, Gert Biesta and Nel Noddings, central capabilities of the educator are suggested: Acknowledgement, Autobiography, Imagination,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031343050
• ISBN13: 9783031343056
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 219 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"