Confusions and conundrums during final practicum: A Study of preservice teachers' knowledge of challenging behaviour

Authors

Samantha McMahon, University of WollongongFollow
Valerie Harwood, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

107243

Publication Details

McMahon, S. & Harwood, V. (2016). Confusions and conundrums during final practicum: A Study of preservice teachers' knowledge of challenging behaviour. In E. B. Petersen & Z. Millei (Eds.), Interrupting the Psy-Disciplines in Education (pp. 145-166). London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan.

Abstract

This chapter describes the psy-knowledges central to preservice teachers' understandings of challenging behaviour. Particularly, it pays attention to the unexpectedly dangerous questions generated when working towards a practical and integrated understanding of how biological, psychological, and ecological factors interact. This chapter deploys Foucauldian discourse analysis to problematize the preservice teachers' shifting and changeable awareness of these causal attributions of behaviour and how this impacts their pedagogy.