Teaching practices at the crossroads of the subjective and the political

Abstract

The questions developed in this article build on the need to revisit some of the issues related with the training of teachers, which, together with a team of colleagues, we have been addressing as part of our theoretical interests. On the basis is a personal enquiry propelled by the contextual conditions of our country, drawing on the political changes at large and the changes in educational policy in particular. A key goal is to say something new, bringing some degree of originality to the discussion. In this sense, the article is organised around the following questions. What do we mean with teaching practices? What conditions our practices? How do we understand subjectivity? Why referring to the political (politics and policies)? Why do we talk about crossroads and what roads are those? Or else, how do the political and the subjective intertwine in teaching practices?