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A Teacher at Work: Professional Development and the Early Childhood Educator

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The article was published on 1986-12-01 and is currently open access. It has received 46 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Professional development.

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Stories of Experience and Narrative Inquiry

TL;DR: The authors briefly survey forms of narrative inquiry in educational studies and outline certain criteria, methods, and writing forms, which they describe in terms of beginning the story, living the story and selecting stories to construct and reconstruct narrative plots.
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Research on Teaching and Teacher Research: The Issues That Divide

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that neither interpretive nor process-product classroom research has foregrounded the teacher's role in the generation of knowledge about teaching, and that what is missing from the knowledge base for teaching is the voices of the teachers themselves, the questions teachers ask, the ways teachers use writing and intentional talk in their work lives.
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No More Business as Usual: Career Changers Who Become Teachers.

TL;DR: This article conducted an ethnographic study with graduate students leaving other careers for education to discover the meanings of the career change for those undertaking it, and the implications of the study for the teaching profession are discussed.
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The implicit theories of early childhood teachers

TL;DR: In this article, the implicit theories of early childhood teachers are discussed. But their implicit theories do not consider the role of the parent in early childhood development and care, and they do not address the implicit biases of teachers.
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Who Has the Floor? Curriculum, Teaching, and the English Student Teacher's Struggle for Voice

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an ethnographic inquiry into the problems of theorizing about teaching and learning within a social context organized to suppress the subjective experiences and meanings of classroom actors.