ERIC Number: EJ946013
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011
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"There's Not Much Room for Anything to Go Amiss": Narrative and Arts-Based Inquiry in Teacher Education
Glass, Christine
Issues in Educational Research, v21 n2 p130-144 2011
Drawings offer new possibilities to develop understandings about how pre-service teachers experience becoming a teacher. It is in drawings that often "those elusive hard-to-put-into-words" (Weber & Mitchell, 2004) aspects of the self appear to add to the developing story of what it is to become a teacher. Using a triangulated approach to the research process of narrative, drawings and graphing, a Graduate Diploma of Education Primary pre-service teacher from a Western Australian University was asked to envision himself as a teacher, and to draw that vision. This vision tells us much about "the multiple contexts" in which the teacher self is being formed and how the pre-service teacher envisioned, reflected, related to, and felt about the journey he undertook. (Contains 3 figures.)
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Educational Research, Research Methodology, Personal Narratives, Freehand Drawing, Art Products, Graphs, Foreign Countries
Western Australian Institute for Educational Research Inc. 5/202 Coode Street, Como, Western Australia 6152, Australia. e-mail: editor@iier.org.au; Web site: http://www.waier.org.au
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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