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Impossibilities and Missing Pieces: An Auto-Ethnographical Approach to Exploring Teacher Identity Formation in Art Education from a Lacanian Perspective

Pearce, Kathryn

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2013, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Art Education.
Using Lacanian theory as the interpretive framework, this autoethnography explores teacher identity formation through the researcher’s experiences as a student teacher in the field of art education. The catalyst for this study arose from the lack of literature that uses Lacanian theory to explore teacher identity formation from a student teacher’s perspective. In this autoethnography, the key concepts are Lacanian theory, subjectivity, and teacher identity formation. The auto-ethnographer used her student teaching journal as the data source for this study. The researcher interpreted entries about her affective and corporeal responses to student teaching in her journal. She interpreted the entries in the journal to uncover fragments of unconscious fantasies of being an art teacher. This inquiry identified three significant themes that apply to all student teachers in art education: Subjectivity, conflict, and the big Other.
Sydney Walker, PhD (Advisor)
Jack Richardson, PhD (Committee Member)
Kevin Tavin, PhD (Other)
125 p.

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  • Pearce, K. (2013). Impossibilities and Missing Pieces: An Auto-Ethnographical Approach to Exploring Teacher Identity Formation in Art Education from a Lacanian Perspective [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1355003651

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Pearce, Kathryn. Impossibilities and Missing Pieces: An Auto-Ethnographical Approach to Exploring Teacher Identity Formation in Art Education from a Lacanian Perspective. 2013. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1355003651.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Pearce, Kathryn. "Impossibilities and Missing Pieces: An Auto-Ethnographical Approach to Exploring Teacher Identity Formation in Art Education from a Lacanian Perspective." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1355003651

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)