Foreword / Kathryn Au -- Our Profession, Our Selves -- Turning Inward to Begin Cultural Inquiry -- Ethnographic Stories of Self -- Remembering Ethnicity -- Representing Culture and Ethnic Identity -- Talking and Thinking About Culture -- Conversation and Concepts -- Metaphors and Meanings -- The Elusiveness of Culture in Teachers' Education -- The Webs We Weave -- Only Connect? -- The Stories by Which We Teach -- The "Default Mode" in our Thinking About Culture -- Durable Narratives in Education -- Rethinking Stories of Culture for Teacher Education -- Learning from Paley's Story -- Conversation and Narrative in the Future Teachers' Autobiography Club -- About the Club -- Transforming Our Texts and Contexts -- Engaging Literacy in Community -- Inquiry Into Autobiography and Conversation -- Early Interpretation: Connected Knowers? -- The Situation and Context -- A Research Collaboration -- Narrating Culture in Book Talk -- Extension Into New Meanings -- Taking a Poet's Spectator Stance -- Expanding our Definition of Culture -- Transformative Genres -- Maya's Graduation -- Fictionalizing Self -- Talking About Caged Bird -- Conversational Genres -- Difficult Conversations -- Finding a Topic -- Doubting: The Debate -- Dodging Hot Lava: Reframing and Repair -- Believing: Joint Inquiry -- Culture Across Texts and Contexts: The Literary Circle -- The Literary Circle -- Thinking Together -- Reading Culture in Autobiography: Axes of Meaning -- Toward Dialogic, Literature-Based Teacher Development -- Changing Talk About Text
Summary
Examines use of ethnically diverse published autobiographies in a teacher educ. book club & course. Focuses on autobiography as site of teacher learning about culture & role of conversation in that learning. Blends personal narrative w/ analysis & descri
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-170) and indexes