“What is like to be in teaching?” has been the guiding question for this
hermeneutic phenomenological study with 4 junior students in the university of
education and 3 graduate students who had majored fine art. It notes the pre-service
teachers struggles and conflicts arising diverse ways of knowing associated their
background. It also exploring differing pre-service teachers orientations toward
meeting with their students, learning, learning being teachers versus doing teaching,
and teaching art. Finally this paper makes specific recommendations on ways of
“being open to the possibility” in the teaching life in order to have the opportunity
to realize one's full potential as a human being. This involves encouraging
pre-service teachers to be creative inquirers who appreciate diverse ways of
knowing that cross academic boundaries from spiritual, literacy, and artistic
domains to those grounded in logic often associated with science and technology.