Narrative notes

Peer S. Daugbjerg

SMERG, AAU

8-12-09

Freema Elbaz-Luwisch, Associate Professor

Ph.D., Education, University of Toronto, 1980.• Research Interests

Teachers knowledge; Change processes in teaching; Multiculturalism; Narrative and biographical research; Story and narrative as modes of learning and professional development

• Keywordsteachers knowledge, life story, narrative

• Research Disciplines: education

Page Last updated on 30/01/2008, University of Haifa, Israel

5 themes in her review

• Curriculum stories

• Teacher’s lives and identity

• Interaction of knowledge and context

• Stories of change

• Diversity of education

- Italics are my add-ons to her presentation of narrative investigation

Curriculum stories

• The sacred stories

• Secret cover stories

• Conveying matters of human and moral weight

- Vygotsky, Activity theory, Bakhtin

Teachers lives, stories and identities

• The influence of life history on work and careers of teachers

• Vocation – Kaijas story• How, where, when and to whom are the

stories told- Goodson, Clandinin & Donnelly,

”Literature” analysis of the Narratives- Is the story exaggerated, understated,

objective or empathic

Knowledge and context

• Professional knowledge landscape

• Place, time and relations

• Schools in reform contexts!

- Clandinin and Connelly, Professional Knowledge Network

Stories of change

• Teacher identities are broad (does she mean has several roles?)

• Selfunderstanding and vulnerability

• Resonance between reform initiative and own pursuasion – Yaels story

- Elbaz-Luwisch, Bakhtin

Diversity in teaching

• Trust and rapport with participant– A comfort zone and a blind spot

• NEW experience gives new insight

• Combining strategies, experiences and emotions.

- Craig, Elbaz-Luwisch

More blind spots

• Remain critical towards practice

• Beware of psychologism and ideologism

• Keep open for other perspectives

• Beware of causalities

- Hargreaves, Gudmundsdottir, Bourdieu

Narrative vs. observation

A narrative includes interpretation, reflection, history, environment, relations, ontogenesis, participant-filtered and exclusion of experiences

An Observation is instananeous, participant-unpolluted, unreflected registration of appearances

The distributed example

• ? Guide: Started with too many questions• ..\..\livshistorieforskning i via\egen undersøgelse\Livshistorieprojektet spørgeguide vers 1.doc

• Looking for – Ways into the teaching profession– Careers within the teaching profession– Contribution to a collective picture of the teacher

profession– Can there be extracted a joint story???

NEW approach

• Now I will limit it to 5– Childhood and home– Teenage and schools– Why teacher education– How teaching– Whats next

• Writings from the teachers: Most significant episodes

• 2nd interview after analysis of this material.

An interesting example

• Teaching Science in a Poor Urban School in Pakistan: Tensions in the Life History of a Female Elementary Teacher

• life history science teacher pakistan.pdf

• A full analysis