Composing a Life Across: In Two Knowledge Landscapes

• In Event: 52.072 - Lives in Research and Pratice

Abstract

While researchers (Beijaard, d., Meijer, P.C. & Verloop, N., 2013) have long argued that teachers’ identities are complex interwoven tapestries of the personal and the professional, and that teachers’ knowledge is both personal and practical, we are beginning to see that something else is also at work. Through narrative inquiries with six teachers who left within their first five years of teaching, we awakened to not only their experiences in the professional knowledge landscape but also their experiences in what we are now calling the personal knowledge landscape. In this paper we begin to conceptualize the interaction between the personal and professional knowledge landscapes and how this interaction may shape teachers stories to leave by.

Authors

• Lee Mason Schaefer, McGill University

• C. Aiden Downey, Emory University

• D. Jean Clandinin, University of Alberta