The problem of endings in teacher education: interpreting narratives of fictional adolescence |
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| Authors: | David Lewkowich |
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| Institution: | Faculty of Education, Department of Secondary Education, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada |
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| Abstract: | This article explores how a reading group of pre-service teachers responded to the endings of three contemporary young adult texts and what such responses may imply about the interpretive preferences of teacher education. Set in the context of a Faculty of Education at a Canadian university, and using the lens of psychoanalytic theory, this article considers the kinds of thoughts that pre-service teachers appear to privilege, and what such privileging – here symbolized through feelings of frustration and satisfaction in the creation of literary meaning – may imply about the structures and desires for authority and certainty in teacher education. |
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| Keywords: | Reading teacher education psychoanalytic theory narrative endings |
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