Composing Diverse Identities: Narrative Inquiries into the Interwoven Lives of Children and Teachers

by Pam Steeves, D. Jean Clandinin, M. Shaun Murphy, et al.

Book Overview

In a climate of increasing emphasis on testing, measurable outcomes, competition and efficiency, the real lives of children and their teachers are often neglected or are too messy and intricate to legislate and quantify. As such, curricula are designed without including the very people that compose the identities of schools. Here Clandinin takes issue with this tendency, bringing together a collection of narratives from seven writers who spent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415397472
• ISBN13: 9780415397476
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.2"