Awakenings: the (un)blurring of then and now -- The teaching urge: and seeking amnesia -- Linocut prints and exile(s): a story of high school -- On guilt, shame and remorse: the library caper -- Pre-service teaching: and pedagogical perversity -- Who am I? And what 'stuff' am I made of? -- The pragmatic radical: and 'making' amends -- Departures and migrations: new beginnings
Summary
This book is autoethnographic account of one beginning teacher's struggle to transform his future teaching identity by unpacking the bruising encounters that shaped him as a student