Narratives on Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Perspective

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Figures and Tables......Page 10
Foreword: Inquiring into Narrative Matters......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 16
Introduction......Page 18
1 Narrative Frameworks for Living, Learning, Researching, and Teaching......Page 28
Part I: Stories of Discovery and Transformation......Page 46
2 Understanding Classroom Experiences: Listening to Stories in order to Tell Stories......Page 48
3 Becoming a Teacher: Using Narratives to Develop a Professional Stance of Teaching Science......Page 64
4 Personal Politics and Identity in Student Teachers’ Stories of Learning to Teach......Page 82
5 Learning to Teach Across Cultural Boundaries......Page 94
6 River Journeys: Narrative Accounts of South Australian Preservice Teachers during Professional Experience......Page 108
7 Exploring Ways of Promoting an Equality Discourse Using Non-Text/Creative Approaches for Learning in the Everyday Lives of Adult Literacy Learners......Page 124
8 Team Teaching: Having the Eyes to See the Wind......Page 140
9 Enhancing Faculty Commitment, Hope, and Renewal through Developmental Performance Review......Page 154
Part II: Stories of Hope......Page 166
10 “It Gives Me a Kind of Grounding”: Two University Educators’ Narratives of Hope in Worklife......Page 168
11 Finding the Time and Space to Write: Some Stories from Canadian Teacher Educators......Page 184
12 Learning about Hope through Hope: Reflections on the ESL Enterprise......Page 194
13 A Newcomer’s Hope: A Narrative Inquiry into One Teacher Educator’s Professional Development Experiences in Canada......Page 208
14 A Tail of Hope: Preservice Teachers’ Stories of Expectation Toward the Profession......Page 220
Notes on Contributors......Page 234
C......Page 238
G......Page 239
L......Page 240
P......Page 241
W......Page 242
Z......Page 243