1st Edition

Reinventing Ourselves as Teachers Beyond Nostalgia

By Claudia Mitchell, Sandra Weber Copyright 1999
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

Designed for use by teachers and teacher educators, this text should help both novice and experienced teachers reinterpret their working lives. The reader is led on a path of personal exploration that goes beyond standard approaches and leads from the personal to the critical. Illustrative material is drawn from all levels, from kindergarten to high school, to illuminate issues and questions... Read more
Introduction Studying Ourselves as Teachers: An Introduction; Chapter 1 Childhood as a Memory Space: Teachers (Re)play School; Chapter 2 Working Back Through Memory; Chapter 3 Picture This: Using School Photographs to Study Ourselves; Chapter 4 Undressing and Redressing the Teacher’s Body; Chapter 5 Reel to Real: Popular Culture and Teacher Identity; Chapter 6 Turning the Video Camera on Ourselves; Chapter 7 Theorizing Nostalgia in Self-study;

Biography

Claudia Mitchell, Sandra Weber

'It is a very personal book for self-reflection and development which would be useful in a staff development library.' - CPD Update