Novice Teachers Using Narrative Pedagogy in the English Classroom

• In Event: Sunday Roundtable Session 1:15 pm
  In Roundtable Session: Teacher Knowledge: Building Classroom Space for Emergent English and Immigrant Teachers and Students (Table 28)

Abstract

What can English teachers learn from a group of medical practitioners who gather together to read and write poetry? This presentation chronicles the journey of a narrative pedagogy study group to think with and through story as a powerful tool for imagining and enacting anti-racism and pedagogical justice. Adapted from the practices of narrative medicine (Charon, 2006; Charon et al., 2017), the group assembled a collection of pre-service and novice teachers to explore the interwoven stories of selves and the ways narrative can serve as a tool for self-exploration and interruptor of stories that had previously been concealed. The presentation concludes with implications drawn from findings for the ways teachers and teacher educators use narrative in their classrooms.

Author

• Patrick Sitzer, Teachers College, Columbia University