Composing Lives in Transition: A Narrative Inquiry into the Experiences of Early School Leavers - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1780529740 ISBN 13: 9781780529745

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2013

Synopsis

Composing Lives in Transition: A Narrative Inquiry into the Experiences of Early School Leavers is structured around ten narrative accounts, each one offering glimpses into the lives of early school leavers from different backgrounds. Framed by the puzzling question of why someone would want to leave school early, the authors worked alongside youths from culturally and socially diverse backgrounds in order to understand their experiences and motivations in more depth. In doing so, however, the research team learnt that the stories are also as much about how early school leaving shaped their lives after they left education. By looking across the accounts provided in the book, paying particular attention to place, temporality and personal and social dimensions, the authors were able to identify resonant threads that enabled them to reframe a narrative reconceptualization of the phenomenon of early school leaving.

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About the Author

D. Jean Clandinin is Professor and Director of the Centre for Research for Teacher Education and Development at the University of Alberta. She is a former teacher, counselor, and psychologist. She is co-author with Michael Connelly of four books and many chapters and articles. Their most recent book, Narrative Inquiry, was published in 2000. She is part of an ongoing inquiry into teacher knowledge and teachers professional knowledge landscapes. She is past Vice President of Division B of AERA and is the 1993 winner of AERA s Early Career Award. She is the 1999 winner of the Canadian Education Association Whitworth Award for educational research. She was awarded the Division B Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002 from AERA. She is a 2001 winner of the Kaplan Research Achievement Award, the University of Alberta s highest award for research and a 2004 Killam Scholar at the University of Alberta.

Edition details

• Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1780529740
• ISBN 13: 9781780529745
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 276
• Editor: Clandinin D. Jean, Steeves Pam, Caine Vera