Journal article
Observing, resisting, and problem-posing language and power: Possibilities for small stories in inservice teacher education
Linguistics and education, Vol.46, pp.23-32
08/2018
DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2018.05.006
Abstract
•Small stories allowed teachers to make connections between theory and practice.•Teachers used small stories to position themselves vis a vis language ideologies.•Differences emerged in teller’s positioning with respect to certainty and agency.
Given the role of literacy education in (re)producing both oppressive and emancipatory language ideologies, teacher education must attend to teachers’ developing understandings of language and language learning. In this study, we examine one possible tool for building such understandings: through the telling of small stories. Focusing on small stories told during discussion of language variation within a graduate education course, we analyzed thirty such stories to identify how they were used to build identity positions and discourses of language. Three types of small stories were identified, each positioning the teller in distinct ways with regards to power and agency: as passive observer, as active resister, or as uncertain participant. These findings suggest affordances and constraints for using these types of narratives to examine and construct language ideologies within teacher education.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Observing, resisting, and problem-posing language and power: Possibilities for small stories in inservice teacher education
- Creators
- Laura A. Taylor - Rhodes CollegeSaba Khan Vlach - The University of Texas at AustinMelissa Mosley Wetzel - The University of Texas at Austin
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Linguistics and education, Vol.46, pp.23-32
- Publisher
- Elsevier Inc
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.linged.2018.05.006
- ISSN
- 0898-5898
- eISSN
- 1873-1864
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 08/2018
- Academic Unit
- Teaching and Learning
- Record Identifier
- 9984371295702771
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