Date of Award
12-2010
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Program
Curriculum & Instruction
Department
Curriculum and Instruction
Major Professor
Kieff, Judith
Second Advisor
Silvestri, Lynette
Third Advisor
Germain-McCarthy, Yvelynne
Fourth Advisor
Furman, Jim
Fifth Advisor
Bedford, April
Abstract
Teacher stories were once relegated to informal gatherings but more recently this aspect of teacher development is being carefully studied in more formalized settings because it is believed to be an important part of teacher development. New ways are being sought to use various aspects of storytelling to help pre-service teachers develop important teaching skills through reflection on experience, dialogue journals, case studies and autobiography. Despite these efforts at the university level, it is especially difficult for pre-service teachers to integrate and apply theories from their methods courses to actual classroom practice. Less effort has been focused on storytelling processes that may occur outside these formal approaches. This study, therefore, looked at how pre-service teachers used stories told in an informal setting to process aspects of learning to teach. This study revealed that pre-service teachers engage in story telling for reasons and in ways that are different from teacher educator intents. Using interviews and private dialogues, patterns of when, how and why six pre-service teachers used oral stories emerged that illuminate challenges to using personal and appropriated stories in coursework. The findings of this study include how oral storytelling is used by pre-service teachers to process emotion and demonstrate specific identities and personal characteristics.
Recommended Citation
Ybos, Cynthia, "Barely There Tales: A Phenomenological Study of Stories Told by Pre-service Teachers" (2010). University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations. 1240.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1240
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