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From Urban Student To Urban Educator: A Narrative Of The Lived Experiences Of Urban Middle School Teachers In A Southeastern School District, Nichole S. Davis
From Urban Student To Urban Educator: A Narrative Of The Lived Experiences Of Urban Middle School Teachers In A Southeastern School District, Nichole S. Davis
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ABSTRACT The purpose of this narrative study was to explore the thoughts, perceptions, and experiences of 12 urban middle school teachers who were once urban middle school students. The study sought to discover reasons why these teachers returned to urban middle schools to teach and why they decided to stay. A qualitative methodology, using the narrative design, was chosen for this study and interviews were conducted in order to obtain quality re-tellings of authentic experiences. The researcher sought to gain an understanding of life in the urban middle school environment. Purposeful sampling was used to select the 12 participants. The …