Teachers’ Voices: Storytelling And Possibility

Elbaz-Luwisch (education, U. of Haifa) discusses the nature of teaching and teacher knowledge, teacher development and school reform, and narrative as a methodology for understanding the lives and work of teachers. She synthesizes ideas elaborated over the past 20 years by researchers who see storytelling as the interactive process that constitutes the site of the production of teachers' knowledge. Some of the chapters have been revised from her published articles. Only names are indexed. Annotation 穢2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)