Places of Curriculum Making

Places of Curriculum Making
Author: D. Jean Clandinin
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2011-04-26
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0857248278

Focusing on school as place where curriculum is made to realizing the ways children and families are engaged as curriculum makers in homes, in communities, and in the spaces in-between, outside of school, this book investigates the tensions experienced by teachers, children and families as they make curriculum attentive to lives.

Truth and Knowledge in Curriculum Making

Truth and Knowledge in Curriculum Making
Author: Lobat Asadi
Publisher: IAP
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2021-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1648023282

Truth and Knowledge in Curriculum Making, addresses issues in curriculum and instruction, such as the lack of Black teachers, minority representation, and mentorship. The book arose from a serial interpretation of five published narrative inquiries that pinpointed complexities lived in a teacher knowledge community at T.P. Yaeger Middle School, a campus located in the fourth largest urban center in America. The inquiry initially resulted in a documentary-style presentation at an educational conference using performance narrative inquiry as an arts-based method to recount the research. In Truth and Knowledge in Curriculum Making, the process of researchers turned actors is unraveled by looking at the lived experiences and identifying the embodied knowledge of teachers in different content areas including Physical Education, Music, Teaching English as a Second Language, Mathematics, and Reading. The authors use parallel stories, counter stories, story constellations, musical narrative inquiry, performance narrative inquiry and other narrative means of sense-making as they examine how they may relate to those stories. Ethical research dilemmas, including the how and why behind each author’s choice to burrow into difficult topics such as race, gender and conflict resolution are revealed. By unpacking the hidden curriculum, examining value creation and by revealing isolated relational experiences of participants and researchers, Truth and Knowledge in Curriculum Making instantiates and outlines how truth and knowledge may be formed in educational settings through intertwining narrative inquiry, teacher knowledge and aesthetic ways of knowing.

Teachers' Narrative Inquiry as Professional Development

Teachers' Narrative Inquiry as Professional Development
Author: Karen E. Johnson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2002-07-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780521013130

A collection of personal, contextualized stories of teachers assessing their own experiences in gaining expertise as language teachers. Preservice and inservice teachers will benefit from the insights provided in this book, as will Language Teacher Educators and education researchers.

Co-composing Knowledge Communities and Curricula

Co-composing Knowledge Communities and Curricula
Author: Yuanli Chen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022
Genre: Curriculum planning
ISBN:

What is knowledge? Whose knowledge matters? How can we build connections with people, share knowledge, and promote one another's growth? These and many other wonders were embedded in my tension-filled stories about knowledge, curricula, and communities, both as a university teacher of English in China and as an international graduate student in Canada. As my doctoral study unfolded, I gradually realized that a pervasive practice of received knowledge shaped my tension-filled stories where I, students, and teachers were viewed or viewed ourselves as received knowers. Knowledge seemed to be delivered to teachers and later to students. The practice of received knowledge stripped away students' and teachers' identities as knowledge holders and curriculum makers. I also grew to see that teacher educators and student teachers were co-composing knowledge communities while co-composing curricula, where individuals' identities as knowledge holders and makers were acknowledged. I wondered how their experiences of co-composing knowledge communities and curricula might shape student teachers' future experiences of co-composing curricula with children. In this study, I came alongside Sam, Lara, and Maryam, two student teachers and one teacher educator, to co-inquire into our experiences of co-composing knowledge communities and curricula, building relational, reciprocal, and ethical learning spaces. We co-inquired into: How did we attend to one another's ways of knowing in this process? How did we promote one another's growth and development through curriculum making? How did our intercultural perspectives and experiences direct us to tell and retell our stories of these experiences, and how might doing so shape the professional knowledge landscapes of teacher education? This study was grounded in the conceptualizations of knowledge communities (Craig, 1995, 2001a, 2007, 2013) and curriculum making (Connelly & Clandinin, 1988; Huber et al., 2011) that value teachers' and children's identities as knowledge holders and curriculum makers. I resonated with the understanding underlying these conceptualizations, that is, knowledge is the sum total of the knower's experience (Connelly & Clandinin, 1988; Dewey, 1938; Huber et al., 2011) and individuals hold personal practical knowledge (Clandinin, 1985; Connelly & Clandinin, 1988). I engaged in a relational narrative inquiry with Maryam, Lara, and Sam for one and a half years. I came alongside the three co-researchers in multiple places, such as in their in-person classroom, online classroom, online meetings, on campus, and at Maryam's home. I participated in their course weekly and wrote field notes of my experience. We had one-on-one research conversations. I kept a research journal, our email messages, and copies of documents, photos, and artifacts they shared with me. Thinking narratively with the stories they lived, told, and retold in our relational three-dimensional narrative inquiry spaces attentive to temporality, sociality, and place, I composed their narrative accounts to foreground their knowledge and voices. Three resonant threads became visible across their narrative accounts, which deepened and made more complex the personal, practical, social, and theoretical justifications of this study. I invited Maryam, Lara, and Sam to read their narrative accounts, the resonant threads chapter, and the chapter on returning to the study justifications and imagining forward, to ensure they felt resonance. Making visible the resonant threads alongside the study justifications, I invited readers to rethink and reimagine practices in the landscapes of teacher education, curriculum making, and intercultural communities. The three resonant threads across Sam's, Lara's, and Maryam's narrative accounts are: "Building Ethical, Reciprocal, and Relational Learning Spaces," "Inquiring into Tensions and Differing Ways of Knowing," and "Becoming The Best-Loved Self." Two study justifications for future inquiry that emerged from our inquiry are: "Shaping Pre-Service Teacher Education and Curriculum Making With Children" and "Co-Composing Intercultural Knowledge Communities for Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Decolonization (EDID)." Through this narrative inquiry, I participated in conversations about pre-service teacher education, curriculum making, and intercultural knowledge communities. I joined conversations about legitimizing personal knowledge and nurturing children's and our identities as knowledge holders, creators, contributors, and change makers. Keywords: knowledge communities, curriculum making, student teachers, teacher educators, narrative inquiry.

Culture, Curriculum, and Identity in Education

Culture, Curriculum, and Identity in Education
Author: H. Milner
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2010-03-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0230105661

This book analyzes equity and diversity in schools and teacher education. Within this broad and necessary context, the book raises some critical issues not previously explored in many multicultural and urban education texts.

Narrative Inquirers in the Midst of Meaning-Making

Narrative Inquirers in the Midst of Meaning-Making
Author: Elaine Chan
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2012-06-28
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1780529252

Illustrates interim narrative field texts of identity as teacher educator stories and demonstrates how researchers utilize common places of temporality, sociality, and place in analyzing narratives. This title describes conceptualizations of narrative research processes, bringing forward narrative tools and methods of layering narratives.

Learning, Leading, and the Best-Loved Self in Teaching and Teacher Education

Learning, Leading, and the Best-Loved Self in Teaching and Teacher Education
Author: Cheryl J. Craig
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2022-12-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3031119029

This book explores the concept of the "best-loved self" in teaching and teacher education, asserting that the best-loved self is foundational to the development of teacher identity, growth in context, and learning in community. Drawing on the work of Joseph Schwab, who was the first to name the "best-loved self," the editors and their contributors extend this knowledge further through the collaboration of their group of teacher educators, known as the Faculty Academy, who have been involved in examining teacher education for over two decades.

International Teacher Education

International Teacher Education
Author: Cheryl J. Craig
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2014-12-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1784411353

The book fills a gaping hole in the teacher education literature. Nowhere is there a volume that globally surveys teacher education pedagogies and invites international scholars to describe the most productive ones in their home countries.