Chapter 12: The Ghosts in The Teachers’ Lounge: Conjuring the Event in Schools
摘要
Theorizing the educational scene as haunted by the event to-come, this chapter positions the specter of the event as a generative concept for (social studies) teacher education. Using Derrida’s concept of hauntology, Gordon’s haunting, and Caputo’s theorization of the event as a specter of everyday life in schools as theoretical frames, we offer a hauntological reading of the film The Teachers’ Lounge to de-sediment and trouble present conceptions of “teacher” as a controlling, omniscient master. We position Lounge as a provocative, generative text for teacher educators and teacher candidates to view and deconstruct with one another, and we demonstrate how a hauntological reading of classroom scenes (e.g., in the film, in teacher education classrooms) can position teacher candidates as conjurers of the event.