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In this article, the author examines the expectations of a group of site-based teacher educators. Each of these teacher educators attempted to support a pre-service teacher who struggled to achieve satisfactory outcomes on their professional placement. The current article is concerned with the bases for strong emotional experiences. The article also raises questions in relation to how we can support teachers make sense of discourses that shape their lives and their emotions, particularly with respect to site-based teacher educators' expectations of their pre-service teacher.

This inquiry examines the collaborative relationship between Mary, a teacher at a junior high, and Stefinee, a teacher educator at a nearby university. The purpose of this inquiry is to explore the experiences the authors have had in their collaboration that have sustained both of the authors in their professional lives. The authors use emblematic narratives to make assertions about their collaboration through the use of the metaphor of an informal roadside fruit stand while contrasting their work with larger collectives of school– university partnerships.

In this conceptual article, the author considers two apparently contradictory dynamics in learning. First, the Winnicottian notion of the split-off intellect, in which individual subjectivity is skewed toward thinking and away from affect. Second, an inversion of the first notion, in which affect splits off to form the central domain of experience, relationship, and defense against difficulty.The author uses narratives from several contexts in her own educational history – a student-teaching experience, a graduate course in educational theory, and my work as a preservice teacher educator-to discuss these two notions.