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What to Teach When You’re not Wearing Black

Teaching or Surviving?

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What other choice do I have? I am a student … I am a teacher. They are my students … they are my teachers. My mentor is my teacher but when she participates in my mid-class yoga sessions, she assumes the position of student. The subtle vicissitudes of meaning that emerge from this trichotomy inspire endless fascination as I juggle (or should I say peddle) identity politics and a post-structuralist, post-modernist performance narrative within this bizarre fantasy/reality before me.

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Phillips, C. (2015). What to Teach When You’re not Wearing Black. In: Crowhurst, M. (eds) Beginning Teachers. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-073-4_11

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