Initial Teacher Education for Early Childhood Teachers: A Rhizomatous Inquiry

This project is a study of how initial teacher education works for early childhood preservice teachers and what it does. It brings to light some of the multidimensional dynamics that operate in initial teacher education. Using a rhizomethodological approach the inquiry found that the politics of belonging; border crossing; and, respecting the alterity of an Other; offer new ways for thinking about how initial teacher education works. Initial teacher education program, policy and pedagogy implications are generated by this inquiry and future research pathways are proposed