This study aims to question the current system of teacher education in South Korea and
to propose an alternative way of preparing teachers. This autobiographic narrative inquiry
presents three stories based on my subjective experiences as a pre-service teacher, teacher,
and teacher educator. By analyzing the stories through a lens of Disability Studies in
Education, I interrogate how my "personal" experiences were discursively constituted and
interpreted in particular historical, cultural, political, social, and economic contexts. I discuss
some issues presented in the stories. First, I raise questions about curricular decision-making
in teacher education programs. I discuss what consequences it might have to exclude an
epistemological critique of special education knowledge in teacher education curriculum.
Second, I discuss about the importance of providing pre-service teachers the opportunities to
unlearn the "common-sense" belief and knowledge about disability. Third, I discuss roles of
teacher educators to work against and within the system so that we can better prepare
teacher candidates to reach and teach all students.