The Challenge of Constructing Narratives: An Outline

 

The Challenge of Constructing Narratives

Outline of the article: Dolk, M., & Den Hertog, J., (2008) Narratives in teacher education, Interactive learning environment. 16 (3), 215- 229. doi: 10.1080/10494820802113970

·     Purpose:  To support the student teachers to create narratives about classroom situations to construct meaning in educational settings and to bridge the gap between theory and practice.

·     Thesis statement: The article will describe a six-step theoretical framework to support the construction of educational meaning through narratives and will expose some arguments to justify their implementation to analyze teaching events.

·     Audience: Pre-service primary teachers and In-service teachers

I.            Abstract

II.          Introduction

III.        MILE: Multimedia Interactive Learning Environment

A.      Database of real classroom teaching

IV.       Narratives

A.      Educational knowledge

B.      Construction of narratives

V.      Research method

A.      Design research

B.      Retrospective analysis

VI.   Narrative knowledge in teacher education

A.      Educational stories

B.      Verifiable stories

C.      Negotiated stories

D.      Observation and interpretation stories

E.      Conjecture-based stories

F.       Meaningful and paradigmatic stories

G.      Theoretical and formal stories

H.      Beyond-experience stories

VII. Student teachers’ stories of a specific situation

A.      The case of mathematics lessons

VIII.               A theoretical framework for the transition from telling a story to constructing a narrative

A.      Steps

1.   Observing

2.   Sharing and discussing observations

3.   Analyzing

4.   Reflecting

5.   Developing narrative knowledge

6.   Expanding the personal repertoire and generalizing the situation into a didactic for teacher education

7.   Cycling processes

IX.      Closing remarks

X.         Notes

XI.      Notes on contributions

XII.     Reference