Innovative tool for Prospective Teachers

Dolk, M., & Den Hertog, J. (2008). Narratives in teacher education.  Interactive Learning Environments, 16(3), 215-229. doi:10.1080/10494820802113970

 

• Purpose: To inform about a multimedia interactive learning environment (MILE) and describe the different steps student teachers go through to develop narratives as a tool to construct meaning.
• Thesis statement: Prospective teachers are presented with a groundbreaking tool called MILE to help them connect theory and practice in their pre-teaching experiences. 
• Audience: EFL researchers, advanced students, and teachers.

1. Abstract
2. Introduction
3. MILE 

4.  Narratives

5. Research method

A Narrative knowledge in teacher education

      B Everybody has stories about education

      C Stories about a collective experience are verifiable

      D Stories are being negotiated until they are taken as shared

      E Stories allow conscious separation of observation and interpretation

      F Stories allow student teachers to develop conjectured local theories

      G Meaningful stories are paradigmatic; stories about paradigmatic events are meaningful

      H Stories allow student teachers to move between different levels of theoretical formality

      I Stories help student teachers to surpass experiences

      J Student teachers’ stories of a specific situation

6. A theoretical framework for the transition from telling a story to constructing a narrative

      A Observing

      B Sharing and discussing observations

      C Analyzing

      D Reflecting

      E Developing narrative knowledge

      F Expanding the personal repertoire and generalizing the situation into a didactic for teacher education

      7. Cycling processes

      8. Closing remarks

      9.Notes

      10.Notes on contributors

      11. References