Education is never only about the transmission of knowledge. It is a field where professional identities are shaped, contested, and continually remade. To speak of professional identity in teaching is to enter a space of fluidity, where becoming a teacher…
“In the last 4 weeks, have you experienced any feelings of depression or apathy?” (short pause) “No.” I’m a terrible liar. I’d recently had a fall out with a friend which had been all-consuming, and I’d spent the subsequent months…
This post is available to download as a PDF here. *** The ‘body politic’ is an ancient metaphor by which nations, societies, and public institutions are envisioned through a performative body which fuels ‘ableism’. Whereas phenomenology examines the…