In order to extend Dewey’s notion of education as growth and the idea that being a HPE teacher is always being in a process of becoming a HPE teacher (Armour et al, 2015), we now unpack the three stories using Sharon Todd’s (2014) metaphor of the liminality of pedagogical relationships. This metaphor enables us to discuss preservice teachers whose sets of experiences and knowledges are outside of ‘the norm’ as having resources in and for PETE, as they advance disciplinary knowledge sets while disturbing norms in PETE and thus fostering the liminality of the pedagogical relations.