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Author Florio-Ruane, Susan

Title Teacher education and the cultural imagination : autobiography, conversation, and narrative / by Susan Florio-Ruane with the assistance of Julie deTar
Published Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xxix, 182 pages)
Contents 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-170) and indexes
Notes Print version record
Subject Education -- United States -- Biographical methods
Teachers -- Training of -- United States.
Multicultural education -- United States
Group reading -- United States
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Educators.
Education -- Biographical methods
Group reading
Multicultural education
Teachers -- Training of
United States
Form Electronic book
Author DeTar, Julie
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