Narratives and Metaphors as Teacher Educator and for Teacher Education

• In Event: Roundtable Session 52
  In Roundtable Session: Living Research and Teaching Narratives

Abstract

This study explores how metaphors of teacher educators are evident in the stories they tell across their careers as teacher educators. The participants (the authors) are teacher educators with more than 20 years of experience as teacher educators. The metaphors and narratives are drawn from letters, e-mails, taped transcribed conversations and blogs. Analysis focused on three narratives. The study utilized tools of narrative analysis from Bal (1997), Leiblich, Tuval-Mashiach, and Zilber (1998) and Gilligan, Spencer, Weinberg, and Bertsch, T. (2006). The study provides evidence that metaphors reveal teacher educator identity and guide practice across their career. The analysis revealed tension around struggle and shifts in meaning in relationship to the metaphor.

Authors

• Stefinee E. Pinnegar, Brigham Young University

• Mary Lynn Hamilton, The University of Kansas