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Teacher Education and Professional Development
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
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Teacher Stories, Parent Stories, Stories Of School: Educator/Parents Navigating School Landscapes, Jennifer C. Nelson
Teacher Stories, Parent Stories, Stories Of School: Educator/Parents Navigating School Landscapes, Jennifer C. Nelson
Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Situated within this narrative inquiry are four parents, who are also educators, negotiating their teacher/parent identities while examining their praxis within their classrooms. Educators, who are also parents, have a unique position within education. They have a personal, practical, professional knowledge of schools—and a personal, practical knowledge of their children. In the process of juxtaposing these parent stories of teaching and learning with their own child(ren) alongside their teacher stories of teaching and learning with their students, various curricular practices are called into question. It is the personalized stories that often bring silenced voices to the forefront; thus, the researcher …