Open AccessAmish Teacher Dialogues with Teacher Educators: Research, Culture, and Voices of Critique
Author(s) -
Henry Zehr,
Glenda Moss,
Joe D. Nichols
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the qualitative report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2160-3715
DOI - 10.46743/2160-3715/2005.1843
Subject(s) - dialogical self , ethnography , pedagogy , narrative , sociology , narrative inquiry , teacher education , critical theory , psychology , anthropology , epistemology , social psychology , linguistics , philosophy
This dialogical project is framed with in critical inquiry methods to bring an Amish teacher’s voice to the fore front. Henry, an Amish middle school teacher, and two university teacher educators in northeastern Indiana collaboratively critiqued educational literature written about the Amish culture from the past 15 years. Building on critical ethnography and narrative methods, the authors used dialogue as a medium for inquiry. The intersubjective, collaborative project democratized the university researchers’ research role and allowed an Amish voice to gain a place in the academic field of research.