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

About 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
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807742473
• ISBN 13: 9780807742471
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Lyons Nona, LaBoskey Vicki K.