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As an expression of arts research, this book explores the lived experiences of three women, Ruth, Ann and Nathalie (pseudonyms), as they became art teachers over the course of their certification year. Rendering their experiences as short stories from the field of teacher education brings a social research dimension to scholarship through the literary form of creative nonfiction, in which stories act as catalysts to understand teacher culture from first-person accounts (Ellis, 2002; Richardson, 1994).
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Sinner, A. (2013). Creative Nonfiction as a Method Of Inquiry. In: Unfolding the Unexpectedness of Uncertainty. Social Fictions Series. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-356-0_1
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