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Narrative Conceptions of Knowledge: Towards Understanding Teacher Attrition (Advances in Research on Teaching)
D. Jean Clandinin (Ed.)
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Description for Narrative Conceptions of Knowledge: Towards Understanding Teacher Attrition (Advances in Research on Teaching)
Hardcover. Working from a narrative teacher knowledge perspective that understands teachers' personal practical knowledge as shaped in professional and personal knowledge landscapes. The book focuses on the experiences of six people who left teaching in their first five years to bring teachers' experiences to the phenomenon of early career teacher attrition. Series: Advances in Research on Teaching. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: JNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 231 x 21. Weight in Grams: 478.
"The book volume shares six narrative accounts, which offer glimpses into the teachers' lives, which are composed with attention to place, temporality, and personal and social dimensions. By inquiring narratively into the experiences of these teachers, the book identifies the complex ways in which the teachers' personal practical knowledge is shaped by their personal knowledge landscapes as well as professional knowledge landscapes. Questions are raised about the implications of seeing teacher attrition as a process rather than singular event, that is, as a process of coming to tell a story to leave by, for our understandings of teacher knowledge and ... Read more
"The book volume shares six narrative accounts, which offer glimpses into the teachers' lives, which are composed with attention to place, temporality, and personal and social dimensions. By inquiring narratively into the experiences of these teachers, the book identifies the complex ways in which the teachers' personal practical knowledge is shaped by their personal knowledge landscapes as well as professional knowledge landscapes. Questions are raised about the implications of seeing teacher attrition as a process rather than singular event, that is, as a process of coming to tell a story to leave by, for our understandings of teacher knowledge and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Condition
New
Series
Advances in Research on Teaching
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
Bingley, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784411381
SKU
V9781784411381
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Ref
99-50
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