Two college faculty members share their experiences of the dialogue that has evolved as each woman formed her identity as professor. Both are women who began as junior single faculty members in rural, isolated university communities and became professors at other larger institutions. Their stories tell how they negotiate teaching, research, and…

Describes a narrative-based teacher evaluation program that includes (1) critical reflection upon a teaching or learning experience; (2) collaborative interpretation with a supervisor; (3) selection of professional goals based on the insights derived; (4) determination of ways to monitor progress toward these goals; and (5) written evaluation by…

Presents an extended piece of reflective writing by an Advisory Teacher from Suffolk, England. Apprehends the competing and conflicting actions and sensations that make up the author's emerging sense of herself as a teacher. Expresses the vulnerabilities, the shifts in feelings, that are part of her daily school existence. (RS)

Understandings of teacher experience and narrative that could lead to reconceptualizing teacher education are explored. The understanding of experience should be expanded beyond field-based and professional development experience to encompass the totality of a teacher's experience. (SLD)

The life history method, which achieved a prominent position in the Chicago tradition of sociological research in the early 1920s, has been widely adopted for educational inquiries since the 1980s. The power of the life history method in illuminating subjective teacher experiences in social historical contexts has made it "probably the only…

The author of this article shares her teaching experience in the United Nations International School (UNIS) of Hanoi, a prestigious school offering an International Baccalaureate program from Kindergarten to Grade 12. It is one of only two UN schools in the world, the other being in New York City. On the first day of school, her 18 students filed…

Demography, distance, and the expansion of settlements created problems for the State Department of Education in Western Australia and other Australian states in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Educational administration in Canada and parts of the United States faced similar issues with regard to the provision of schools. A common…

The National Commission on Excellence in Education (1983) published "A Nation at Risk", declaring the mediocrity of American educational performances. Twenty-five years later, our nation still remains at risk even though the federal government, through the enactment of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, has attempted to create a…

Recounts, through the author's journal entries, four days of a junior high school writing teacher's experience. (MM)

When asked by a student in a seminar recently if he could remember a perfect day teaching elementary school, the author writes memories of one he distinctly remembers because he gained new insight into teaching on that particular day. After returning to work following the devastating loss of a younger 19 year-old brother in a car crash, he resumed…

In this article, the author talks about creating a nurturing classroom environment of mutual respect with students enthralled by possessions and technology. He talks about his life in the city, how life is abundant in the city, and that he acknowledges all that the city offered, from the culture of art and music to racial and ethnic diversity.…

This narrative is one teacher's attempt to represent a personal (political) and professional journey from becoming a student teacher to being a teacher, whilst always remaining a learner. The author offers her record of significant experiences, influences, debates and dilemmas, pausing to reflect on the principles which have informed her work with…

One of the most important questions I ask as both a cultural anthropologist and a university teacher is: How do people come to know what they think they know? In this article, I adopt a narrative approach to processes of learning and discovery in two very different locales, an indigenous society in the South Pacific, and a senior seminar on…

Recounts an experience with a "stage prop" bomb made by the art department for a high school production of John Patrick's play, "Anybody Out There?" (EL)

Describes personal growth of a teacher who is influenced by research theories and, more importantly, the knowledge gained from working directly with individual writers. (CRH)