Exploring self toward expanding teaching, teacher education and practitioner research

Against the backdrop of a pull toward external standards and accountability, this collection of chapters re-grounds us in the importance of bringing the 'self' to the foreground of the discourse of teaching, teacher education and practitioner research. Showcasing the work of an internation...

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Other Authors Ergas, Oren (Editor), Ritter, Jason K. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020.
SeriesAdvances in research on teaching ; v. 34.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781839822643
9781839822629
DOI10.1108/s1479-3687202034
Physical Description1 online resource (240 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Prelims
  • Introduction: Why Explore Self in Teaching, Teacher Education, and Practitioner Research
  • Chapter 1 The Calm, Clear, and Kind Educator: A Contemplative Educational Approach to Teacher Professional Identity Development
  • Chapter 2 Unleashing the Elephant out of the Closet and into the Wildness of Inner Work
  • Chapter 3 The Nature of Self and Its Challenges to Educational Orthodoxy and "Discipline"
  • Chapter 4 Working in the Space Between: Conundrums in Self-Study of Practice Research
  • Chapter 5 Studying the Self in Self-study: Self-knowledge as a Means Toward Relational Teacher Education
  • Chapter 6 The Self in Teaching: An Ecological Approach
  • Chapter 7 Unprivileging Dividedness: In Favor of Undivided Ways of Knowing
  • Chapter 8 The Educational Self as a Starting Point for Understanding and Self-study in Teaching and Teacher Education
  • Chapter 9 The Formation of the "Teaching Self" Through the Pulls of Day-to-Day and Meaning
  • Chapter 10 Nature-based Mindfulness and the Development of the Ecological Self When Teaching in Higher Education
  • Chapter 11 Two Perspectives on Teaching Mindfulness in Teacher Education: A Self-study of Two Selves
  • Chapter 12 The Teaching Self as Productive Embodied Friction: An Account on the Integration between Contemplation and Anti-oppressive Education
  • Afterword: Looking Back, Moving Forward.