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Imagined Worlds and Classroom Realities

Mythopoetic Provocations for Teachers and Teacher Educators

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Authors:
  1. Steve Shann

    1. University of Canberra, Australia

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  • There is no other book like Imagined Worlds and Classroom Realities, a book that not not only tells nine gripping stories, but also both positions these stories as part of a growing scholarship about story-telling, and provides practical ways of using the stories in teacher education and professional development.

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Storytelling in Teacher Education

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Storytelling in Teacher Education

      • Steve Shann
      Pages 3-8

  3. The Stories

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. Great Expectations

      • Steve Shann
      Pages 11-12

    3. Both Alike in Dignity

      • Steve Shann
      Pages 13-28

    4. Agitations and Animations

      • Steve Shann
      Pages 29-34

    5. Sally and the Universarium

      • Steve Shann
      Pages 35-49

    6. The Two Boxes of Mystery

      • Steve Shann
      Pages 51-64

    7. Sylvia’s Distress

      • Steve Shann
      Pages 65-71

    8. Talk

      • Steve Shann
      Pages 73-91

    9. Missing

      • Steve Shann
      Pages 93-99

    10. The Lecture

      • Steve Shann
      Pages 101-115

  4. Notes about the Stories and Provocations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117
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    2. Notes about the Stories

      • Steve Shann
      Pages 119-127

    3. Provocations for Teachers and Teacher Educators

      • Steve Shann
      Pages 129-134

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 135-139
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About this book

"Stories matter. Stories speak about complex aspects of our lives that intuitively we know are important but for which the language of rational discourse is often inadequate. Stories draw on archetypal structures and evocative language in ways that create affect: they penetrate, provoke, and disturb. This is a book of nine stories about teachers and students. A young woman sits in her first teacher-education lecture and wonders what kind of a tribe she is joining. A preservice teacher clashes with his mentor teacher on a practicum. A teacher and students inhabit an online space with unpredictable consequences. Sally discovers the Universarium. Joseph writes a story that undoes his therapist. Sylvia struggles to free herself from an oppressive discourse about the nature of teaching. Two siblings support and console each other through their complex inductions into classroom lifeworlds. A secondary student goes missing and police, the media and his teachers wonder why. A teacher-education academic wrestles with elusive ideas in order to prepare a lecture that he hopes will make a more-than-passing impact. There is no other book like Imagined Worlds and Classroom Realities. It not only tells nine gripping stories, but also positions these stories as part of a growing scholarship about story-telling. It includes, as well, practical ways of using the stories in teacher education and professional development. Steve Shann is a teacher and writer with over forty years experience in primary, secondary and tertiary classrooms. "

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Canberra, Australia

    Steve Shann

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Imagined Worlds and Classroom Realities

  • Book Subtitle: Mythopoetic Provocations for Teachers and Teacher Educators

  • Authors: Steve Shann

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-887-9

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6209-887-9Published: 03 February 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 140

  • Topics: Education, general

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