Narrative Inquiry in Practice: Advancing the Knowledge of Teaching (Practitioner Inquiry Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807742473 ISBN 13: 9780807742471

Publisher: Teachers College Press, 2002

Synopsis

This unique collection of exemplars explores narrative as a powerful means of inquiry, while also examining its possible limitations. Drawing on the experiences of teachers and teacher educators in a variety of settings who have been researching their own teaching, this book:

• Outlines a conceptual framework for considering narrative as a mode of inquiry, including narrative practices that teachers and researchers can try in their own settings.
• Provides detailed descriptions of exemplars, revealing the contexts in which they were developed, an assessment of how they work, and why they may be problematic.
• Uncovers how narrative as a mode of inquiry provides a method for investigating, documenting, and representing a scholarship of teaching.
• Advances the ongoing debates about the role of teachers in inquiring into their own practice, engaging in action research, and building a new epistemology of practice.

About this title

Book Description

“This book demonstrates the power of narrative knowing in the continuing development of teachers. Careful narrative research, as described here, is especially important now, when governmental policies are demanding an almost exclusive emphasis on experimental designs. This collection shows what we stand to lose if narrative research is discarded.”
—
Nel Noddings
, Lee L. Jacks Professor of Child Education Emerita, Stanford University

From the Author

Nona Lyons is a visiting research scholar at University College Cork in Ireland, and Vicki Kubler LaBoskey is a professor of education at Mills College in Oakland, California, where she co-directs the Teachers for Tomorrow’s Schools Credential Program.

Edition details

• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0807742473
• ISBN 13: 9780807742471
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Lyons Nona, LaBoskey Vicki K.