Overview
- This resource contains narratives about the complex work of classroom teaching that are written by beginning teachers; readers of the text are invited into various discussions and then asked to clarify or justify the positions they have taken.
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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About this book
In this collection of narratives, beginning teachers describe and reflect on critical incidents – classes that didn't quite go to plan. These experiences are recalled in a general way and all names and locations are fictionalized. Each narrative, while situated in a classroom, focuses on the experience of the teacher/author and sheds light on their thinking as they work through the complex event they are remembering. Beginning teachers then imagine how they might approach a similar situation in the future. While developing reflective practice techniques can support and enhance individual practice when these accounts are shared with others there is some scope for enhancing educative experiences generally. There is a long tradition of reflective practice writing in education, and this small workbook aims to make a contribution to this genre. Each reflective practitioner narrative is followed with an invitation to discussion section and periodically through the workbook sideline methodologies are introduced that readers can use to support further analysis. The beginning teacher narratives are authentic, complex and alive and as a consequence they will generate lively discussion in tutorial spaces with beginning teachers. The materials are informed by various strands of poststructural and critical theory and therefore they are intended to reflect a dialogic stance – rather than signpost specific directions.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Beginning Teachers
Book Subtitle: Reviewing Disastrous Lessons
Editors: Michael Crowhurst
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-073-4
Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-073-4Published: 27 April 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 124
Topics: Education, general