Narrative Inquiry in Early Childhood and Elementary School: Learning to Teach, Teaching Well

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Stephanie Sisk-Hilton (San Francisco State University, USA) Daniel R. Meier (San Francisco State University, USA)

Narrative Inquiry in Early Childhood and Elementary School

Learning to Teach, Teaching Well

Stephanie Sisk-Hilton (San Francisco State University, USA), Daniel R. Meier (San Francisco State University, USA)

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Routledge
20 September 2016

Educational strategies & policy; Pre-school & kindergarten; Primary & middle schools; Teaching skills & techniques

As top-down educational reform policies at local and national levels increasingly isolate teachers from their own professional and instructional agency, and stultify children’s passion for learning, new techniques are needed for understanding and transforming educational practices. Narrative Inquiry in Early Childhood and Elementary School: Learning to Teach, Teaching Well facilitates meaningful change in early years education by providing early childhood and elementary school teachers with methods to incorporate narrative into their instruction and inquiry. This book offers practical strategies for incorporating narrative tools and structures into the classroom, and encouraging effective conceptual, pedagogical, and personal avenues for engaged teaching and learning across languages and cultures. The book’s chapters promote a lively discussion of central tenets of narrative inquiry and illustrative examples of teachers at work with narrative and inquiry for improving their practice and children’s learning.

By: Stephanie Sisk-Hilton (San Francisco State University USA), Daniel R. Meier (San Francisco State University, USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 226g
ISBN: 9781138924413
ISBN 10: 1138924415
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 20 September 2016
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Foreword by Marianna Souto-Manning Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Why Narrative Inquiry? Chapter 2: Problems and Puzzles for Inquiry: What Story Are We Telling? Chapter 3: Narrative-Based Tools and Strategies — Telling a Good Story Chapter 4: Telling Someone Else’s Story: Narrative Inquiry for Understanding Individual Children Chapter 5: Narrative Inquiry as a Support for Curricular Innovation Chapter 6: Narrative Inquiry and Language and Literacy Teaching Chapter 7: Pulling It All Together: Narrative Inquiry in Action Chapter 8: Narrative Inquiry and Educational Change Authors’ Biographies References Index

Stephanie Sisk-Hilton is Associate Professor of Elementary Education at San Francisco State University, USA. Daniel R. Meier is Professor of Elementary Education at San Francisco State University, USA.

Reviews for Narrative Inquiry in Early Childhood and Elementary School: Learning to Teach, Teaching Well

"""This book’s linking of ‘points of inquiry’ with ‘points of practice’ that lead to ‘points of educational change’ gets at the most important aspect of stories—that the collection of and analysis of stories focuses on the relational aspects of all learning. The authors present possibilities of story through vignettes of children, teachers, and families, interviews, art projects, and digital media. They urge us to trust our stories and to trust our words as teachers, and they give us the confidence to trust children’s stories."" --Elizabeth P. Quintero is Professor, Coordinator of Early Childhood Studies, and Co-Chair of School of Education at California State University Channel Islands, USA"