Narrative Inquiries into Curriculum Making in Teacher Education

The authors explore how individuals' identity and personal practical knowledge are being formed, shifted or interrupted through moments in teacher education which the authors have carefully and thoughtfully constructed. The particularity of the stories, expressed in this collection, provide us with multiple perspectives and multiple entry points into making deeper sense of the complexity of curriculum making in teacher education. As the stories of experience resonate with our own or as they stand apart from them, they provoke us to re-imagine teacher education, and to retell and relive our own stories of teacher education with new possibility. Narrative inquiry offers teacher educators a way to move the telling of stories of curriculum making in teacher education forward, to delve more deeply into stories in order to make sense of experience and to attend more closely to a curriculum of life that is educative for the self and others in teacher education.ContentsForeword by F. Michael Connelly1. Narrative Inquiry, Curriculum Making, and Teacher Education--Darlene Ciuffetelli Parker, Debbie Pushor and Julian Kitchen2. Narrative Inquiry in Teaching and Teacher Education--Cheryl J. Craig3. Narrating the Tensions of Teacher Educator Research in Moving Story to Research--Stefinee Pinnegar and Mary Lynn Hamilton4. Teaching for the Love of It: An Education Professor s Narrative at the Crossroads of Language, Culture and Identity--Grace Feuerverger5. Storying Curriculum in a Collaborative Landscape--Ruth Mansur, Smadar Tuval, Judith Barak, Bobbie Turniansky, Ariela Gidron and Talia Weinberger6. Imagining and Re-Imagining Our Students and Ourselves: Using Metaphor to Story the Experiences of Teacher Candidates and Teacher Educators--Julian Kitchen7. Related Literacy Narratives: Letters as a Narrative Inquiry Method in Teacher Education--Darlene Ciuffetelli Parker8. Social Studies Teacher Educators as Curriculum Makers: Engaging Teacher Candidates in Democratic Practices--Lynette B. Erickson and Amy B. Miner9. Tip-Toeing Past the Fear: Becoming a Music Educator by Attending to Personal Music Experiences--Shelley M. Griffin10. Storied Ways of Approaching Diversity: Reconceptualizing a Blended Learning Environment in a Multicultural Teacher Education Course--Ramona Maile Cutri11. Attending to Milieu: Living a Curriculum of Parents Alongside Teacher Candidate--Debbie Pushor12. Making Curriculum of Lives: Living a Story of Critical Literacy--Dixie K. Keyes13. Narrative Inquiry in Curriculum of Life on Expanded and Extended Landscapes in Transition--Shijing Xu14. Turning Points: Reflections on the Autumn Leaves--Debbie Pushor, Julian Kitchen and Darlene Ciuffetelli Parker