Reinventing Ourselves as Teachers: Beyond Nostalgia

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Psychology Press, 1999 - Education - 251 pages
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 fundamental to teachers' lives. Film and literary narratives supply further case studies and contribute to the fusion of critical reflection and everyday realities that typically inform teachers' experiences of work.
 

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Childhood as a Memory Space Teachers Replay School
10
Working Back Through Memory
46
Picture This Using School Photographs to Study Ourselves
74
Undressing and Redressing the Teachers Body
124
Reel to Real Popular Culture and Teacher Identity
164
Turning the Video Camera on Ourselves
189
Theorizing Nostalgia in Selfstudy
218
References
233
Subject Index
243
Author Index
249
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