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The Need for Revision: Curriculum, Literature, and the 21st Century

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Cultivating Global Citizenship? Life In Transit

The authors examine the field of contemporary teacher knowledge research. Specifically, they examine the use of narrative representations by researchers in this field. They make a general argument for the development of distinct narrative genres in teacher knowledge research because considerations of distinct genre styles can help researchers refine their craft and can inform the development of appropriate standards by which different forms of narrative research might be judged. Building on this argument, they offer an outline of the features of some genres that seem to be currently emerging in teacher knowledge writings. The article closes with an examination of the implications the emergence of narratives genres would have for teacher education research.

The Inevitability and Importance of Genres in Narrative Research on Teaching Practice

The Poet, the CEO, and the First-Grade Teacher.

Using the poetry of Walt Whitman (the Poet), an MIT graduation speech by Carleton Fiorina, the chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard (the CEO), and the words of a teacher (the First-Grade Teacher), high school English teacher Mary Ellen Dakin shares with readers the transformation of her understanding of student achievement. Dakin expands her notions of intelligence and achievement to validate and incorporate ideas she had previously rejected. Through an introspective process, Dakin is able to find success in places she never thought to look. This essay encourages teachers to challenge and broaden the assumptions that they bring to teaching and learning. (pp. 269-284)

Mary Ellen Dakin

Papers

The Poet, the CEO, and the First-Grade Teacher.

Voices Inside Schools: The Poet, the CEO, and the First-Grade Teacher