Narratives on teaching and teacher education : an international perspective / edited by Andrea M.A. Mattos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mattos, Andrea M. A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teaching--Cross-cultural studies.

Teaching.

Teachers--Training of--Cross-cultural studies.

Teachers.

Teachers--Training of.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 226 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Summary:

This book is a compiled collection of papers on lived experiences and stories of teaching and learning to teach. Organized around the themes of discovery, transformation, and hope as reflected in teachers' and student teachers' narratives and stories, the contributors focus on the subjective meanings and interpretations invoked in teaching and learning to teach, including affective and psychological meanings, such as attitudes, knowledge and experiences. Drawing on narrative inquiry as a method of data collection and analysis, the book provides on international view of how research conducted in several different locations views teaching and teacher education and how diverse cultures embrace narrative as a way of knowing, learning, teaching, and researching.

Contents:

Introduction / Andrea M.A. Mattos

Narrative frameworks for living, learning, researching, and teaching / Anne Laura Forsythe Moore

Understanding classroom experiences: listening to stories in order to tell stories / Andrea M.A. Mattos

Becoming a teacher: using narratives to develop a professional stance of teaching science / Robert W. Blake, Jr. and Sarah Haines

Personal politics and identity in student teachers' stories of learning to teach / Alan Ovens

Learning to teach across cultural boundaries / Neil Hooley and Maureen Ryan

River journeys: narrative accounts of South Australian preservice teachers during professional experience / Faye McCallum and Brenton Prosser

Exploring ways of promoting an equality discourse using non-text/creative approaches for learning in the everyday lives of adult literacy learners / Rob Mark

Team teaching: having the eyes to see the wind / Dawn Garbett and Rena Heap

Enhancing faculty commitment, hope, and renewal through developmental performance review / Georgia Quartaro and Bob Cox

"It gives me a kind of grounding": two university educators' narratives of hope in worklife / Denise J. Larsen

Finding the time and space to write: some stories from Canadian teacher educators / Dianne M. Miller

Learning about hope through hope: reflections on the ESL enterprise / Judy Sillito

A newcomer's hope: a narrative inquiry into one teacher educator's professional development experiences in Canada / Yi Li

A tail of hope: preservice teachers' stories of expectation toward the profession / Andrea M.A. Mattos.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0230612334

9780230612334

OCLC:

226357009

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