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Teacher education and cultural imagination : autobiography, conversation, and narrative

Title: Teacher education and cultural imagination : autobiography, conversation, and narrative / by Susan Florio-Ruane with the assistance of Julie deTar.
Author: Florio-Ruane, Susan.
Publication: Mahwah, NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, ©2001.

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DeTar, Julie.

Description

xxix, 182 pages; 25 cm

Summary

Making culture a more central concept in the texts and contexts of teacher education is the focus of this book. It is an account of the author's investigation of teacher book club discussions of ethnic literature, specifically ethnic autobiography--as a genre from which teachers might learn about culture, literacy, and education in their own and others' lives, and as a form of conversation and literature-based work that might be sustainable and foster teachers' comprehension and critical thinking. Dr. Florio-Ruane's role in the book clubs merged participation and inquiry. For this reason, she blends personal narrative with analysis and description of ways she and the book club participants explored culture in the stories they told one another and in their responses to published autobiographies. She posits that autobiography and conversation may be useful for teachers not only in constructing their own learning about culture, but also, by doing so, in participating in the transformation of learning within the teaching profession.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 156-170) and indexes.

Contents

Foreword / Kathryn Au -- Our Profession, Our Selves -- Turning Inward to Begin Cultural Inquiry -- Ethnographic Stories of Self -- Remembering Ethnicity -- Representing Culture and Ethnic Identity -- Talking and Thinking About Culture -- Conversation and Concepts -- Metaphors and Meanings -- The Elusiveness of Culture in Teachers' Education -- The Webs We Weave -- Only Connect? -- The Stories by Which We Teach -- The "Default Mode" in our Thinking About Culture -- Durable Narratives in Education -- Rethinking Stories of Culture for Teacher Education -- Learning from Paley's Story -- Conversation and Narrative in the Future Teachers' Autobiography Club -- About the Club -- Transforming Our Texts and Contexts -- Engaging Literacy in Community -- Inquiry Into Autobiography and Conversation -- Early Interpretation: Connected Knowers? -- The Situation and Context -- A Research Collaboration -- Narrating Culture in Book Talk -- Extension Into New Meanings -- Taking a Poet's Spectator Stance -- Expanding our Definition of Culture -- Transformative Genres -- Maya's Graduation -- Fictionalizing Self -- Talking About Caged Bird -- Conversational Genres -- Difficult Conversations -- Finding a Topic -- Doubting: The Debate -- Dodging Hot Lava: Reframing and Repair -- Believing: Joint Inquiry -- Culture Across Texts and Contexts: The Literary Circle -- The Literary Circle -- Thinking Together -- Reading Culture in Autobiography: Axes of Meaning -- Toward Dialogic, Literature-Based Teacher Development -- Changing Talk About Text.

ISBN

0805823743
9780805823745
0805823751
9780805823752

LCCN

00062253

OCLC

ocm44732382
44732382
SCSB-8902351

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library