Female Preservice Teachers' Talk: Illustrations of subjectivity, visions of 'nomadic' space
- 1 February 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice
- Vol. 8 (1) , 9-27
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13540600120110547
Abstract
This article examines the talk of four female graduate preservice teachers who volunteered for a Gender Issues in Education Research Seminar at a Western US university. Using the theoretical framework of poststructural feminists, an analysis of discourses competing at the site of each participant illustrates the relationship between discourses and subjectivity. Four aspects of the theory of subjectivity are illustrated: how subjectivity is the battle site of discourses, the disciplinary power of discourses, the insidious nature of discourses, and the use of discourses to re-invent self. Following these illustrations, there is a discussion of the kind of space necessary for students to re-invent themselves outside of the dominate discourses defining what it means to be 'female' and 'teacher'.Keywords
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