Open AccessA (Class)Room with a View: How Fiction Can Help New Teachers
Author(s) -
Susan Barber
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
sfu educational review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1916-050X
DOI - 10.21810/sfuer.v2i.336
Subject(s) - narrative , class (philosophy) , value (mathematics) , the arts , pedagogy , creative writing , focus (optics) , sociology , mathematics education , psychology , epistemology , visual arts , computer science , art , literature , philosophy , physics , machine learning , optics
In teacher education programs there is much vocal support surrounding the idea of using creative materials to encourage innovative ways of seeing and learning. Yet these programs sometimes struggle to teach through arts-based texts that facilitate both wider and deeper knowledge of the self and others. The reason for this may be twofold: first, there may be a lack of understanding or appreciation of narrative inquiry, and second, examples of targeted pedagogical literature are scarce. In this article, I would like to explore the value of teaching through literature and creative writing, and in particular, focus on how stories written by and for new teachers can be significant in shaping positive identities for their new profession.