Narrative Inquiry in Early Childhood and Elementary School

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.

• Foreword by Marianna Souto-ManningAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 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 StoryChapter 4: Telling Someone Else’s Story: Narrative Inquiry for Understanding Individual ChildrenChapter 5: Narrative Inquiry as a Support for Curricular InnovationChapter 6: Narrative Inquiry and Language and Literacy TeachingChapter 7: Pulling It All Together: Narrative Inquiry in ActionChapter 8: Narrative Inquiry and Educational ChangeAuthors’ BiographiesReferencesIndex

"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