‘I feel like two different teachers’: the split self of teacher subjectivity

In this paper, I use a debate between Albert Einstein and Henri Bergson about the nature of time as heuristic tool to understand teacher subjectivity. This outlines notions measurable duration or flow. These two interpretations reality, one from physicist philosopher, are used examine bi-Discoursal identity An ethnographic participatory action research project in preschool class England finds that teachers operate both sometimes simultaneously. At times, is physicist, measuring geometry child development comparing it fixed point normative expectations. other existing moment with children. The simultaneous existence these identities cause anguish, forming conflicted contested self.