What's the Story? A Study of novice teachers' narrative understandings of classroom events

Authors

Kathy Carter
Kathleen Jablon Stoehr, Santa Clara UniversityFollow

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

2011

Publisher

Hawaii International Conference on Education

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to report the most recent results from an ongoing, multi-year research initiative at a large Research 1 University in the Southwestern United States. The purpose of this line of inquiry is to learn about how novice teachers develop narrative understandings of teaching. In particular, this study explores the cognitive understandings and personal sense-making strategies used by novices to "story" the classroom events they routinely observe in the field.

Comments

Reprinted with permission.

Recommended Citation

Stoehr, K. & Carter, K. (2011). What's the Story? A Study of novice teachers' narrative understandings of classroom events. Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on Education, p. 3178–3188. Honolulu, HI.