Stories Out of School: Memories and Reflections on Care and
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Paul, James L. / Smith, Terry Jo / Paul, James L., PUBLISHER: Ablex Publishing Corporation, ong>Theong> changes in how we understand and study teaching and learning are uneven. Strongly held beliefs support ong>theong> changes and equally strongly held beliefs challenge ong>theong>m. However, ong>theong> discourse about teaching and learning and our understandings ong>ofong> ong>theong> nature ong>ofong> educational research have changed raong>theong>r dramatically in ong>theong> last two decades. ong>Theong>se changes form ong>theong> context for ong>theong> work described in this book on stories out ong>ofong> school-adult memories ong>ofong> ong>theong>ir teachers. ong>Theong> authors have been guided by ong>theong> work ong>ofong> Jackson (), Noddings (), Eisner (), Palmer (), Coles (), and Lindley (), among oong>theong>rs, who have focused on ong>theong> qualities ong>ofong> life experienced by children, particularly in ong>theong> classroom. Interests have centered on memory, meaning, and ong>theong> self in relationship. Using a database ong>ofong> letters written by adults (most ong>ofong> whom are teachers or are preparing to be teachers) to ong>theong>ir former teachers, ong>theong> authors examine ong>theong> interpersonal spaces shared by teachers and students and ong>theong> kinds ong>ofong> unacknowledged pedagogies created in those spaces. ong>Theong>y are interested in ong>theong> ethics ong>ofong> experienced pedagogies and ong>theong> implications ong>ofong> those pedagogies for educating teachers.