Auto/Biography & Pedagogy: Memory & Presence in Teaching

by Freema Elbaz-Luwisch

Overview

In the tradition of educational narrative inquiry, this book explores diverse ways of thinking, writing and theorizing from auto/biographic experience, in language that is rooted in practice yet challenges the authoritative discourses of educational policy, theory and research. The book moves from first to third person accounts and from personal and family stories to narratives of teachers and teacher educators in the contested, multicultural environment of Israel. It highlights the multi-voiced, embodied lives of Israeli teachers from many cultures and identities and engages with literature around memory and embodiment, imagination, place and presence in teaching. The book will interest researchers in curriculum studies, teaching and teacher education, as well as scholars interested in issues of memory in historical and contemporary contexts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781433116421
Publisher:	Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Publication date:	11/22/2013
Series:	A Merchant Street Mystery
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	251
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Freema Elbaz-Luwisch (PhD in educational theory from the University of Toronto) serves on the University of Haifa’s Faculty of Education. She is the author of two previous books and numerous articles and the co-author (with Xin Li and Carola Conle) of Shifting Polarized Positions: A Narrative Approach in Teacher Education (Peter Lang, 2009).

Table of Contents

Contents: Mixing Memory and Desire like Spring Rain – «Firm on My Feet»: My Mother’s Story – Mothering, Embodying, Teaching – Retrieving Memory, Shaping Teaching: Stories of Teachers – Retrieving Memory, Shaping Teachers: Stories of Teacher Educators – Auto/biography, Writing and Teacher Learning – «Taking the Imagination Visiting» as Pedagogy: Journal Fragments – Auto/biography and Conflict in Teaching and Life – Presence and Dialogue, Auto/biography and Teaching.