Composing Diverse Identities

D. Jean Clandinin is Professor and Director of the Centre for Research for Teacher Education and Development at the University of Alberta, Canada. Janice Huber and Anne Murray Orr are Assistant Professors at St. Francis Xavier University, Canada. Marilyn Huber is a doctoral student at the University of Alberta, Canada. Marni Pearce is a senior education manager with the Alberta Government. M. Shaun Murphy is a Research Associate and Pam Steeves is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta, Canada.

• 1. A Narrative Understanding of Lives in Schools 2. Working Alongside Children, Teachers, Parents, and Administrators in Relational Narrative Inquiry 3. Children’s Stories to Live By: Teachers’ Stories of Children 4. Children’s Fictionalized Stories to Live By 5. Children’s and Teachers’ Stories to Live By in a School Story of Character Education 6. Living Alongside Children Shapes an Administrator’s Stories to Live By 7. Shifting Stories to Live By: Interweaving the Personal and Professional in Teachers’ Lives 8. Living in Tension: Negotiating a Curriculum of Lives 9. Composing Stories to Live By: Interrupting the Story of School 10. Afterword. References

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