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A Parallax View Of Teacher Ontology: Reconceptualizing The Reflexive Method In The Abyss Of Žižekian Negativity, Brian R. Gilbert

College of Education Theses and Dissertations

The primary emphasis of this research is the exploration and development of a Žižekian lens of teacher reflection. This methodological exploration further considers how the Žižekian lens can functions as a unique contribution to both teacher education and the philosophy of education through the exploration of particular pathways of teacher consciousness and misrecognitions of self-identity in relation to the discourse of education. Following Žižek, teacher reflection is an act of resistance to this discourse that begins with uncovering the failure of our own perception as the result of a misperception at the limits of being in/through the big Other thereby …