Flights from the field and the plight of teacher education: a personal perspective

This self‐study of my role in teacher education examines events in my career, using Schwab’s deliberations on ‘the practical’ as an interpretive tool with which to broaden, burrow, and re‐story my personal experiences. Through reflecting inward and outward, backward and forward, I connect specific episodes I encountered in my career with Schwab’s explication of ‘the practical’. In the final analysis, my self‐study reveals the seeds of a small renaissance: a change not only in the way teacher education is approached in my university, but also in how I think about it and participate in it.