Composing Diverse Identities: Narrative Inquiries Into the Interwoven Lives of Children and Teachers

ISBN-13: 9780415362184 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 208 str.

D. Jean Clandinin; Janice Huber; Marilyn Huber

Opis

How interwoven are the lives of children, families, teachers and school leaders?

In this important new book seven authors bring together stories and questions about the lives of children, families, teachers and administrators. Lives are seen up close, in all their particularity, and explored in terms of the contexts that shape the experiences of students and staff. These stories provide an alternative view of what counts in schools, with a shift away from viewing the school as a business model towards an idea of schools as places to engage citizenship.

Building upon Jean Clandinin's 20 years of narrative inquiry where she worked and learned alongside school practitioners for extended periods of time, this book uses a narratively-constructed theoretical background of personal practical knowledge, professional knowledge landscapes, and stories to live by to provide both a language and a storied framework for understanding lives in school. In two urban multicultural schools in western Canada, the co-authors of this book engaged in narrative inquiries alongside children, teachers, families and principals. As these narrative inquiries were negotiated at each site the co-authors lived in the school, for the most part in particular classrooms alongside a teacher where, as relationships developed, children as well as some family members were invited to participate in the inquiry. Articulating the complex ethical dilemmas and issues that face people in schools every day, this fascinating study of school life and lives in school raises new questions about who and what education is for and provokes the re-imagining of schools as places to attend tothe wholeness of people's lives.

The complexities and possibilities of the meeting of diverse teachers', children's, families' and school leaders' lives in schools shape new insights about the interwoven lives of children and teachers, and raise important, lingering questions about the impact of these relationships on the unfolding lives of children.

Recenzje

'I recommend this book wholeheartedly for its realness, centredness, courage and compassion.' - Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice

Spis treści

1. A Narrative Understanding of Lives in Schools  2. Working Alongside Children, Teachers, Parents, and Administrators in Relational Narrative Inquiry  3. Children’s Stories to Live By: Teachers’ Stories of Children  4. Children’s Fictionalized Stories to Live By  5. Children’s and Teachers’ Stories to Live By in a School Story of Character Education  6. Living Alongside Children Shapes an Administrator’s Stories to Live By  7. Shifting Stories to Live By: Interweaving the Personal and Professional in Teachers’ Lives  8. Living in Tension: Negotiating a Curriculum of Lives  9. Composing Stories to Live By: Interrupting the Story of School  10. Afterword.  References

O autorze

D. Jean Clandinin is Professor and Director of the Centre for Research for Teacher Education and Development at the University of Alberta, Canada. Janice Huber and Anne Murray Orr are Assistant Professors at St. Francis Xavier University, Canada. Marilyn Huber is a doctoral student at the University of Alberta, Canada. Marni Pearce is a senior education manager with the Alberta Government.  M. Shaun Murphy is a Research Associate and Pam Steeves is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta, Canada.