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Direct linkCraig, Cheryl J. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2005
In this article, a parallel is drawn between Steven Hawking's use of common and novel metaphors in his evolving explanation of the theory of the universe and the similar use of common and novel metaphors by educators in four school contexts attempting to illuminate their experiences of school reform storied and restoried over time. The epistemic…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Epistemology, Figurative Language, Learning Strategies
Nuttall, Joce – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2006
One characteristic of long day childcare settings in New Zealand is the opportunity for teachers to continuously observe each other at work. Ngaire's story is an account of one teacher's problematic negotiation of her subjectivity (self-as-teacher) in the context of a wider institutional story drawn from Ngaire's colleagues' observations of her…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personal Narratives, Risk, Interprofessional Relationship
Fottland, Helg – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2004
By evoking the concept of memory pictures, the author recalls her early years as a teacher. Rather than calling herself a beginning teacher, she characterizes herself as a fledgling teacher to capture the insecurity associated with the first years of teaching. This experience is narrated through five memory pictures: (1) the new school's many…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Autobiographies, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Educators
