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Teachers' Voices
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01 January 2005

This book draws on ideas about the nature of teaching and teacher knowledge, teacher development and school reform, and narrative as methodology for understanding the lives and work of teachers. These ideas have been elaborated over the past 20 years or so by many researchers who see storytelling as the interactive process, which constitutes the site of the production of teachers’ knowledge. Narrative research makes it possible to pay attention to the wider concerns that shape the work of teaching, looking at the whole lives of teachers and other educational practitioners, and exploring those lives as embedded in multiple contexts. Listening to teachers speak about whatever most concerns them in their work, it is not surprising that we hear a wide range of different voices not only from different teachers but within the speech of any one teacher. The purpose of this book is to reflect back to the field a multidimensional, multivoiced portrayal of teaching as it is, bringing our attention to both the complexity and the possibility inherent in the work of teachers. Approaching teaching in this way, as multivoiced, allows us to hear possibilities for change and development in the stories of teachers and classrooms.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Teaching Story as Dialogue
Chapter 2. Narrative Identity and Narrative Method: Arts and Practices of Attentiveness
Interlude I: Body Voices
Chapter 3. Stories of Teacher Development: Holding Complexity
Interlude II: The Presence
Chapter 4. Arts and Practices of Writing and Restorying
Interlude III: Listening to Oneself
Chapter 5. Arts and Practices of Valuing: Moral Voices in Teaching
Interlude IV: Love and Care
Chapter 6. Arts and Practices of Innovation: Imagining and Revisioning
Interlude V: The Position of Control
Chapter 7. Arts and Practices of Making Place
Chapter 8. Storytelling and Border-Crossing: Shaping Dialogic Identities as Teachers
Chapter 9. Voices and Possibilities: Teaching/Research Story as Arabesque
References
Index