Teaching and Learning Through Multiple Lenses: Educator/Parents Problematizing Schooling via Their Students and Their Own Children

• In Event: Roundtable Session 2
  In Roundtable Session: Education Is Relational Work

Abstract

Educators, who are also parents, have a unique position within the school landscape. They have a professional knowledge of schools—and a personal knowledge of their children. The role of parent changes consciousness as a teacher. Situated within this narrative inquiry are six parents, who are also educators, negotiating their teacher/parent identities while examining their praxis within the school landscape. Juxtaposing these parent stories of teaching and learning with their own child(ren) alongside their teacher stories of teaching and learning with their students, provides educators with personalized accounts offering insight into these stories of experience (Connelly & Clandinin, 1988) that can inform educational practice.

Author

• Jennifer Christine Nelson, University of Nebraska - Lincoln