Places of Curriculum Making: Narrative Inquiries into Children's Lives in Motion: 14 (Advances in Research on Teaching, 14) - Softcover

Clandinin, D. Jean; Huber, Janice; Murphy, M. Shaun

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1781902607 ISBN 13: 9781781902608

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2012

Synopsis

This book documents a radical shift in thinking from focusing on the school as the place where curriculum is made to realizing the ways children and families are engaged as curriculum makers in homes, in communities, and in the spaces in-between, outside of school. The narrative inquiry framing this book investigates the tensions experienced by teachers, children and families as they make curriculum attentive to lives. It draws on a research project involving multiperspectival narrative inquiries spanning four research sites and traces the tensions experienced by children, families and teachers in multiple curriculum making sites and some of the profound identity making and assessment making implications that become visible. Its attention to the relational in narrative inquiry is focused on tensions that shape lives and, as well, the unfolding of narrative inquiries. This informative book has a wide reaching audience of educational researchers, teacher educators, research methodologists, particularly those interested in narrative inquiry, curriculum scholars, graduate students, university faculty, teachers, administrators and parents alike.

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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: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1781902607
• ISBN 13: 9781781902608
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168