ELLIE’S STORY:BECOMING-TEACHER

with the ile—A SOCIOMATERIAL ACCOUNT

How teacher becomes?

BECOMING-TEACHER

Not about a linear process of working through stages, finally becoming an ‘expert’ teacher. Rather, teaching as always a process of becoming, of learning through encounters with the Other in ever-new relations.

This is Ellie’s story: Making time, and losing time, and wasting time, and Ellie time.

THREE INTRA-RELATED CONCEPTS – TOOLS FOR CONCEIVING THE WORLD ANEW

Assemblage - Affect - Becoming

YEAR 1/2LE (6-8 YEARS OF AGE)

120 STUDENTS6 TEACHERS

VISIBILITYAUDIBILITYMOBILITY

STUDENT-CENTRED CURRICULUM

MAT

MAT

MAT

MAT

MAT

MAT

IWB

Mobile whiteboard

Fixed whiteboard

Teacher chair

Curved couch

Shelving units

MAT

MAT

MAT

My

roughly

drawn

copy of

the

floor

plan

DOING EVERYTHING TOGETHER AT THE SAME TIME

CHOOSING READING SPACES IN READING TIME

SMALL GROUP CONFERENCING

ENCOUNTERING THE ‘GIGGLE’

REFERENCES

Deleuze, G., & Guattari, F. (1987). A thousand plateaus: Capitalism and schizophrenia(B. Massumi, Trans.). London; New Delhi; New York; Sydney: Bloomsbury.

Mercieca, D. (2012). Becoming‐Teachers: Desiring students. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 44(sup1), 43-56. doi:10.1111/j.1469-5812.2011.00787.x

Parr, A. (2010). The Deleuze dictionary. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

May, T., & Semetsky, I. (2008). Deleuze, ethical education, and the unconscious. In I. Semetsky (Ed.), Nomadic education: Variations on a theme by Deleuze and Guattari. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.