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‘Making us do the things we ought to do’: Constructing Teacher Identity in Alberta Normal Schools
Author(s) -
Hollihan K.A.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of historical sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.186
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1467-6443
pISSN - 0952-1909
DOI - 10.1111/1467-6443.00112
Subject(s) - identity (music) , certainty , power (physics) , psychology , sociology , pedagogy , social psychology , aesthetics , epistemology , art , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics
Through an exploration of the practices characterizing teacher training, this paper critiques the operation of institutional power within an historical setting. Utilizing a tripartite model integrating the ideas of Foucault and van Gennep, the impact of (inmate) separation, examinations and awards are investigated as specific technologies that served to produce a definable inmate identity, one infused with institutional values and norms. Inmate voice figures prominently, and serves to remind us that the dynamic of power is not characterized by certainty.