What Does a Teacher Look Like

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ID10325977
AuthorsMalcolm Vick (James Cook University, corresponding author)
Year2000
Volume36
Issue1
Pages247-263
Publication date2000-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePaedagogica Historica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0030-9230 • E-ISSN: 1477-674X
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0030923000360112
OpenAlexW2035743517
LanguageEN
Citations received7

This paper examines the construction of verbal and visual images of teachers and teaching in English‐language manuals of pedagogy from 1850 to the present. It arises from a number of interests arising from poststructural interests in reworking both Cartesian dualism and its implications for pedagogy. It examines manuals of teaching in the light of the notion of pedagogy as fully corporeal and performative, a concept which focuses attention on the reiterative (bodily) enactment of what have come to be established meaningful gestures, postures and actions. It argues that for the most part the verbal constructions of teachers and teaching in these texts offer a de‐corporealised, mentalistic account of teachers and teaching, but that in their margins they also construct the materials from which a more corporealised, performative account of teacher and teaching might be construed. Finally, it considers visual illustrations of teachers, and the extent to which they might offer a more thoroughly performative view of teaching. It concludes that this possibility is in fact contained by the pervasiveness of the dualist discourses in which they are framed

Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Sociology · Education and Critical Thinking Development · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Psychology · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies

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