The First Time

This symposium begins with a performance of an ethnographic play, The First Time by Michelle Ludecke. The symposium aims to communicate recent research in teacher education and focuses the experiences of becoming a teacher across borders through innovative arts-based research. Three supporting papers develop the argument that teacher education research requires a response that addresses the complexity, contradictions and nuance of the lived experiences of beginning and experienced teachers alike. Graduates teachers will be leading generational change in teachers work and lives into the twentieth first century. But to have them lead they must stay in the profession. What will be the future research and policy responses?