Navigating Possibility in Teacher Education through Radical, Poetic, and Uncertain Thinking

This groundbreaking collection challenges conventional approaches to teacher education by moving past restrictive government policies and standardized models to explore radical possibilities and creative uncertainties in educational practice. The editors bring together international scholars who employ innovative methodologies including poetic thinking, philosophical exploration, and experimental writing to reimagine teacher education. The book features unique approaches such as "dissolute education" that resists neoliberal frameworks, kintsugi-inspired repair pedagogies, literary worlding practices, and Southern hemisphere perspectives that embrace experimentation over standardization. Contributors draw on diverse theoretical frameworks to create spaces for failure, unknowing, and dissensus as productive forces in educational transformation. The volume's distinctive structure moves from radical thinking through poetic approaches to embracing plurality, offering both empirically grounded case studies and theoretically imaginative explorations. This is an essential resource for teacher educators, education researchers, and graduate students globally, particularly those seeking alternatives to instrumentalist approaches to teacher preparation and educational reform.