Sore spots and skin grafts: recovering the self(s) through autoethnographic inquiries of becoming (a teacher)
| dc.contributor.author | Merkel, Liz | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Sanford, Kathy | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2010-08-31T20:46:09Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2010-08-31T20:46:09Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2010 | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2010-08-31T20:46:09Z | |
| dc.degree.department | Department of Curriculum and Instruction | |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Arts M.A. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | This qualitative study advances the possibility for pre-service teachers’ transformational change in the ways that they consider teaching, learning and the culture of schooling via autoethnographic exploration. I interviewed 5 participants who chose autoethnographic inquiry to fulfill a seminar course in their Post Degree Professional Program at the University of Victoria. Using post structural methodology and arts-based representation, I introduce the palimpsest, a multi-layered and overwritten text, as a metaphor to express the complex, layered and constantly changing process of becoming (a teacher). A thematic analysis of the data revealed several phases/layers of the autoethnographic process experienced by the participants including: re-embodiment; hermeneutic phenomenology; and healing and transformation. Through these phases/layers, the participants questioned the institution within which they are ‘becoming’, informing and transforming the patterns they themselves assume. The aim of this study is to provide in-depth description of autoethnography that demonstrates its potential to illuminate discursive patterns dominant in the culture of schooling. | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1828/3011 | |
| dc.language | English | eng |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.rights | Available to the World Wide Web | en |
| dc.subject | Curriculum | en |
| dc.subject | Autoethnography | en |
| dc.subject | Teachers, Training of | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | UVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::Education | en |
| dc.title | Sore spots and skin grafts: recovering the self(s) through autoethnographic inquiries of becoming (a teacher) | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |