ABSTRACT
In what ways, we ask, might public school teaching-that purportedly secular activity we all know so well as educators-be conceived as embedded not only with religious-Christian-overtones but, more specifically, with characteristics normally ascribed to Jesus, as teacher, martyr, and savior, that help construct even secular contemporary teachers in his image. Indeed, how might the very understandings of teachers-the ones teachers construct themselves and those constructed for them by others, including by colleges of education-become not only reflections but also reifications of Christian-and Christ-specific-understandings about the purposes of teaching, of who teachers are, and of what they are meant to do?
