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: 0857248286

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.

Journeys in Narrative Inquiry

Journeys in Narrative Inquiry
Author: D Jean Clandinin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 540
Release: 2019-09-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000690555

Organized around a metaphor of an academic journey, D. Jean Clandinin offers published tracings of an unfolding journey over 40 years that, at its outset, appeared to focus only on questions of epistemology. However, the book illuminates how that apparent beginning focus shape-shifted to questions of methodology, ethics, ontology, and subsequently, political concerns. Clandinin shows that, even at the outset, her research wonders were grounded in relational understandings of experience, understandings that were simultaneously ontological, methodological, epistemological and ethical. Jean’s work is collaborative, an engagement alongside others and within the contexts in which they and she lived and worked, including those who were participants in the research. She continues to acknowledge that narrative inquiry changes people’s ways of being in the world, and those changes have ethical significance. While what she and her colleagues now call relational ethics has always been central, recently her sense of ethics has become more explicitly political. She shows the development of ideas over time, beginning as she entered doctoral work and continuing through 2019 and onward. Jean’s work, centered on relational understandings of experience, highlights ethical dimensions, and has come to define narrative understandings for generations of researchers. This book will be an invaluable resource for researchers and graduate students, and professional researchers in both educational and healthcare settings. .

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.

Narrative Inquiry

Narrative Inquiry
Author: Vera Caine
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2021-12-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1350142077

Introducing key ideas of narrative inquiry, this is the first book to explore in depth the theoretical underpinnings of the methodology. The authors open up ways of thinking about people's experiences and their lives, which are situated and shaped by cultural, social, familial, institutional, and linguistic narratives. The authors draw on a range of theorists, creative nonfiction writers, poets, and essayists. The book is arranged into five parts covering a range of topics including: embodiment, memory, knowledge, wonder, imagination, community, responsibility, and place. Each section ends with a methodological discussion of their work involving refugee families with young children from Syria.

Composing Diverse Identities

Composing Diverse Identities
Author: D. Jean Clandinin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2006-04-18
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1134232578

In a climate of increasing emphasis on testing, measurable outcomes, competition and efficiency, the real lives of children and their teachers are often neglected or are too messy and intricate to legislate and quantify. As such, curricula are designed without including the very people that compose the identities of schools. Here Clandinin takes issue with this tendency, bringing together a collection of narratives from seven writers who spent a year in an urban school, exploring the experiences and contributions of children, families, teachers and administrators. These stories show us an alternative way of attending to what counts in schools, shifting away from the school as a business model towards an idea of schools as places to engage citizenship and to attend to the wholeness of people’s lives. Articulating the complex ethical dilemmas and issues that face people and schools every day, this fascinating study puts school life under the microscope raises new questions about who and what education is for.

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.

Educating in Dialog

Educating in Dialog
Author: Sebastian Feller
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2014-11-14
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027269343

Educating in Dialog: Constructing meaning and building knowledge with dialogic technology contains a collection of new articles on the relationship of learning, dialog and technology. The articles combine different views of dialogic learning stemming from a multiplicity of discipline backgrounds and research interests including educational design, educational science, epistemology, cognitive linguistics, cultural studies, and mobile learning, to name a few. The authors discuss and explore a variety of topics that range from knowledge building over learning communities to dialogic technologies for knowledge co‐construction. Discussing technology and learning against this broad background is indispensable, as the gap between what learners actually need for successful learning and what current technology offers becomes increasingly wide. This book provides thought-provoking views of recent developments in the area of technology supported learning for everyone who is interested in educational technologies, collaborative learning, and dialog.

Exploring Self toward expanding Teaching, Teacher Education and Practitioner Research

Exploring Self toward expanding Teaching, Teacher Education and Practitioner Research
Author: Oren Ergas
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2020-10-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1839822627

Against the backdrop of a pull toward external standards and accountability, this collection of chapters re-grounds us in the importance of bringing the 'self' to the foreground of the discourse of teaching, teacher education and practitioner research.