narrative notes peer s. daugbjerg smerg, aau 8-12-09
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Narrative notes
Peer S. Daugbjerg
SMERG, AAU
8-12-09
Freema Elbaz-Luwisch, Associate Professor
Ph.D., Education, University of Toronto, 1980.• Research Interests
Teachers knowledge; Change processes in teaching; Multiculturalism; Narrative and biographical research; Story and narrative as modes of learning and professional development
• Keywordsteachers knowledge, life story, narrative
• Research Disciplines: education
Page Last updated on 30/01/2008, University of Haifa, Israel
5 themes in her review
• Curriculum stories
• Teacher’s lives and identity
• Interaction of knowledge and context
• Stories of change
• Diversity of education
- Italics are my add-ons to her presentation of narrative investigation
Curriculum stories
• The sacred stories
• Secret cover stories
• Conveying matters of human and moral weight
- Vygotsky, Activity theory, Bakhtin
Teachers lives, stories and identities
• The influence of life history on work and careers of teachers
• Vocation – Kaijas story• How, where, when and to whom are the
stories told- Goodson, Clandinin & Donnelly,
”Literature” analysis of the Narratives- Is the story exaggerated, understated,
objective or empathic
Knowledge and context
• Professional knowledge landscape
• Place, time and relations
• Schools in reform contexts!
- Clandinin and Connelly, Professional Knowledge Network
Stories of change
• Teacher identities are broad (does she mean has several roles?)
• Selfunderstanding and vulnerability
• Resonance between reform initiative and own pursuasion – Yaels story
- Elbaz-Luwisch, Bakhtin
Diversity in teaching
• Trust and rapport with participant– A comfort zone and a blind spot
• NEW experience gives new insight
• Combining strategies, experiences and emotions.
- Craig, Elbaz-Luwisch
More blind spots
• Remain critical towards practice
• Beware of psychologism and ideologism
• Keep open for other perspectives
• Beware of causalities
- Hargreaves, Gudmundsdottir, Bourdieu
Narrative vs. observation
A narrative includes interpretation, reflection, history, environment, relations, ontogenesis, participant-filtered and exclusion of experiences
An Observation is instananeous, participant-unpolluted, unreflected registration of appearances
The distributed example
• ? Guide: Started with too many questions• ..\..\livshistorieforskning i via\egen undersøgelse\Livshistorieprojektet spørgeguide vers 1.doc
• Looking for – Ways into the teaching profession– Careers within the teaching profession– Contribution to a collective picture of the teacher
profession– Can there be extracted a joint story???
NEW approach
• Now I will limit it to 5– Childhood and home– Teenage and schools– Why teacher education– How teaching– Whats next
• Writings from the teachers: Most significant episodes
• 2nd interview after analysis of this material.
An interesting example
• Teaching Science in a Poor Urban School in Pakistan: Tensions in the Life History of a Female Elementary Teacher
• life history science teacher pakistan.pdf
• A full analysis