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Language Teachers' Stories from their Professional Knowledge Landscapes (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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Language Teachers' Stories from their Professional Knowledge Landscapes (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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Language Teachers' Professional Knowledge Landscapes is a
collection of fourteen narratives from teachers of different
languages, at different school levels, in different contexts across
Australia.This volume brings together not simply language teacher
stories, but also more political stories of the problems associated
with school programs and contexts. Highlighted through these
stories are some of the major political issues in schools that
impact language teachers' work, and their students' success in
sustained language study. The book is conceptually framed by the
work of Clandinin and Connelly (1996) and their notion of `levels'
of stories told by teachers about their classrooms: the secret, the
sacred and the cover stories. The term `professional knowledge
landscape' is used to indicate how teachers can critically situate
their work, and thereby understand it better.The collection
includes the stories of two outstanding primary language educators,
and a story of mixed success in a rural program in teaching the
local Aboriginal language (Ngarrabul). There are stories of
frustration with policy failures, particularly in supporting the
learning of Asian languages. Many of the teacher narrators ask the
confronting question: `What blocks language learning in Australia?'
They offer the strategies which they have developed, that they see
making a difference. Other narratives offer autoethnographic
tracking of careers, for example, as a teacher of Latin and
Classics, Japanese, French, Spanish, Russian, and of teachers'
ongoing vigour and creativity in advocacy. A number of teachers
examine their own identity story for the intercultural learning,
which they then offer and extend in student learning. Consistently
expressed, there is the need for teachers to take up individual
responsibility, while still being strongly supported by their
professional community: `It is us' who make the difference, one
teacher concludes.Supported by a strong Foreword by Canadian
scholar F. Michael Connelly, this ground-breaking collection of
narratives represents a form of social research in providing
critical illustrations of the issues needing attention for national
language education enhancement. It is the only extended inquiry
into language teaching in the context of an active policy
initiative environment, and the first volume to address the
language education landscape through the voices of active language
teachers.
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