Telling Stories in Book Clubs

by Kooy, Mary

• ISBN13: 9780387339269
• ISBN10: 0387339264
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-06-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

Telling Stories in Book Clubs examines questions in the intersections of narrative, teaching, communities of learning, knowledge, women teachers and teacher development. Stories constitute the heart of this book and the glue that holds the pieces together. This book explores the ways women educators understand and make sense of their lives and develop their personal practical knowledge of teaching through narrative texts and experiences in informal learning groups. Exploring possibilities for reconfiguring conceptions of professional teacher knowledge and development, this book demonstrates how drawing from existing tacit teacher knowledge, the women teachers co-construct new "ways of knowing" and practices that account for the complex interplay of multiple forces impacting their personal and professional lives.

Author Biography

Mary Kooy is an Associate Professor in the Curriculum, Learning and Teaching Department of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Acknowledgements	xi
Women Reading, Teaching and Learning	1	(8)
The Study: Re-plotting the Stories of Teacher Development	9	(16)
Analyzing and Re-presenting the Data	25	(4)
The Teachers in the Book Clubs	29	(32)
Book Clubs: Establishing Processes and Protocols	61	(10)
New Beginnings and Telling Stories	71	(32)
Lessons of Learning and Teaching	103	(30)
``Lead Kindly Light'': Teachers Learning and Leading Together	133	(44)
``Crossing Borders'': Stories of Teaching, Gender, and Identity	177	(32)
The Telling Stories of Teacher Book Clubs	209	(16)
References	225	(16)
Index	241