Shifting Polarized Positions: A Narrative Approach in Teacher Education (Complicated Conversation, #24)

by Xin Li, Carola Conle, and Freema Elbaz Luwisch

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The authors of this book - teachers of foundation courses to pre-service and in-service teachers in Canada, Israel, and the United States - use culturally heterogeneous settings as points of departure for inquiry and cross-cultural encounters of difference, and illuminate how, among people of differing ethnic, religious, socio-economic, political, ideological, and gendered backgrounds, the telling of experiential stories can shift personally and culturally polarized positions. Key in the work documented here is the encouragement of narrative rather than argumentative modes of expression: the instructors found inquiry more likely to stay alive when they were able to access and incorporate both the mutual interest of and the personal tensions between their students. The book illustrates how personal dynamics can subtly move individual inquiry forward, and help alleviate animosity and polarization.
  • ISBN13 9781433100055
  • Publish Date 26 August 2009
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Peter Lang Publishing Inc