Full Description
This book explores the reflective potentialities offered by analyses of teachers' professional learning narratives. The book has a specific focus on narratives on professional learning and professional identities emerging from different contexts and gives a deeper understanding of successful teachers' narratives globally.
Diverging from universally standardized constructions of idealized teacher identity and professional learning, the book provides analyses of a diversified set of cases with detailed descriptions of each teacher's idiographic and professional context to gain a deeper understanding of situated professional identities. With contributions from a range of international backgrounds, it shows teachers of various age groups, subject areas and curricula contribute their narratives to help readers reflect on different trajectories toward becoming a teacher. These narratives provide insight into and a deeper understanding of the conditions and complex processes that being a "successful" teacher involves within these case studies, providing a useful contribution to the field of teacher education.
Professional Learning and Identities in Teaching: International Narratives of Successful Teachers will be of great interest to researchers, academics, and post-graduate students of teacher education and international and comparative education.
Contents
Introduction
A. CENDEL KARAMAN AND SILVIA EDLING
1. Remaining a student of teaching forever: Critical reflexive insights from a lifetime of multiple teacher identities in the Republic of Ireland
GERALDINE MOONEY SIMMIE
2. From success/failure binaries to teaching for justice: Conceptualizing education as access, responsibility, dignity, and transparency
WALTER S. GERSHON
3. Teacher narratives as counter-narratives of successful teaching
MARIA ALFREDO MOREIRA, ROSA MARIA MORAES ANUNCIATO AND MARIA APARECIDA P. VIANA
4. "If I can do it at this school, you can put me anywhere": Case studies from Australian graduate teachers in diverse and challenging schools
LYNETTE LONGARETTI AND DIANNE TOE
5. Professional development of EFL teachers through reflective practice in a supportive community of practice
CHITOSE ASAOKA
6. Looking back with pride—looking forward in hope: The narratives of a transformative teacher
FATMA GÜMÜŞOK
7. Understanding a teacher's professional identity through pedagogical rhythm
SÖREN HÖGBERG
8. Revisiting selves through a "success" perspective: An autoethnographic quest of a language teacher across intercultural spaces
TUGAY ELMAS
9. Path toward the construction of a professional identity: A narrative inquiry into a language teacher's experiences
PINAR YENİ-PALABIYIK
10. "Successful teaching": Neoliberal influences and emerging counter-narratives
EMRULLAH YASIN ÇİFTÇİ AND A. CENDEL KARAMAN
Conclusion: Context, interconnectedness, balance, and risk in teachers' narratives
SILVIA EDLING AND A. CENDEL KARAMAN
