A Representative Journey of Teachers’ Perceptions of Self: A Readers’ Theater

Abstract

In this chapter, the authors analyze current pre-service teachers’ reflections on the journals written by teachers from the nineteenth century and early twentieth century. They explore what the interchange reveals about pre-service teachers’ conceptions of teaching and the learning-to-teach process. The analysis focuses on the commonalities and differences between these groups of teachers. Findings are presented in a readers’ theater format in which recurring themes and meaning-making are expressed by voices from the past and by those who would be teachers.

Citation

McMillan, S. and Price, M.A. (2005), "A Representative Journey of Teachers’ Perceptions of Self: A Readers’ Theater", Brophy, J. and Pinnegar, S. (Ed.) Learning from Research on Teaching: Perspective, Methodology, and Representation (Advances in Research on Teaching, Vol. 11), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 137-169. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1479-3687(05)11005-0