Developing Stories From the Field: The Impact of Audience, Advice, and Authenticity on Preservice Teachers’ Narrative Understandings of Teaching

• In Event: University Connections With Field Experiences

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to report the most recent results from an ongoing, multi-year research initiative at a large Research I University in the Southwestern United States. The purpose of this line of inquiry is to learn about how novice teachers begin to formulate narrative understandings of teaching in early field experiences. In particular, this study explores the cognitive understandings and personal/moral sense making strategies used to "story" the classroom events they routinely observe in the field.

Authors

• Kathy J. Carter, The University of Arizona

• Kathleen Jablon Stoehr, Santa Clara University