Composing Diverse Identities: Narrative Inquiries into the Interwoven Lives of Children and Teachers (Teachers, Teaching and Learning) 1st Edition

TITLE : Composing Diverse Identities: Narrative Inquiries into the Interwoven Lives of Children and Teachers (Teachers, Teaching and Learning) 1st Edition

ISBN : 9780415362184

AUTHOR : D. Jean Clandinin (Author), Janice Huber (Author), Marilyn Huber (Author), M. Shaun Murphy (Author), Anne Murray Orr (Author), Marni Pearce (Author), & 2more

PUBLISHER : Taylor

FORMAT: Hardcover

PAGES : 208

YEAR PUBLICATIONS : 2006

LANGUAGE: English

SUBJECT: Psychology

WEIGHT (KG): 0.4

CONDITION: Used - Good

DESCRIPTION:

"In a climate of increasing emphasis on testing, measurable outcomes, competition and efficiency, the real lives of children and their teachers are often neglected or are too messy and intricate to legislate and quantify. As such, curricula are designed without including the very people that compose the identities of schools. Here Clandinin takes issue with this tendency, bringing together a collection of narratives from seven writers who spent a year in an urban school, exploring the experiences and contributions of children, families, teachers and administrators. These stories show us an alternative way of attending to what counts in schools, shifting away from the school as a business model towards an idea of schools as places to engage citizenship and to attend to the wholeness of people’s lives.