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Conference Paper: From leavers to "in-betweeners": how cultural factors shape beginning teachers' "stories to leave by"

TitleFrom leavers to "in-betweeners": how cultural factors shape beginning teachers' "stories to leave by"
Authors
Issue Date2016
Citation
The 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Washington, DC., 8-12 April 2016. How to Cite?
AbstractThis paper focuses on the lived experiences and stories of two beginning teacher’s who left their secondary school posts in 2014. In their separate “stories to leave by” (Clandinin et al, 2009) we see similar stories constructed on the personal landscape that collided with the professional knowledge landscape, and which formed the backdrop to the identity narratives of both teachers. Through this inquiry I throw light on a complex and multifaceted cultural and familial backdrop, in this case a Confucian-heritage setting, as the driving force behind the young teachers’ decisions to leave the teaching jobs they acknowledged loving so much. Adopting a narrative inquiry methodology (Clandinin & Connelly, 2000) the paper adds to our knowledge base on teacher attrition.
DescriptionConference Theme: Public Scholarship to Educate Diverse Democracies
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/230047

 

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dc.contributor.authorHarfitt, GJ-
dc.date.accessioned2016-08-23T14:14:50Z-
dc.date.available2016-08-23T14:14:50Z-
dc.date.issued2016-
dc.identifier.citationThe 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Washington, DC., 8-12 April 2016.-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/230047-
dc.descriptionConference Theme: Public Scholarship to Educate Diverse Democracies-
dc.description.abstractThis paper focuses on the lived experiences and stories of two beginning teacher’s who left their secondary school posts in 2014. In their separate “stories to leave by” (Clandinin et al, 2009) we see similar stories constructed on the personal landscape that collided with the professional knowledge landscape, and which formed the backdrop to the identity narratives of both teachers. Through this inquiry I throw light on a complex and multifaceted cultural and familial backdrop, in this case a Confucian-heritage setting, as the driving force behind the young teachers’ decisions to leave the teaching jobs they acknowledged loving so much. Adopting a narrative inquiry methodology (Clandinin & Connelly, 2000) the paper adds to our knowledge base on teacher attrition.-
dc.languageeng-
dc.relation.ispartofAnnual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, AERA 2016-
dc.titleFrom leavers to "in-betweeners": how cultural factors shape beginning teachers' "stories to leave by"-
dc.typeConference_Paper-
dc.identifier.emailHarfitt, GJ: gharfitt@hku.hk-
dc.identifier.authorityHarfitt, GJ=rp00901-
dc.identifier.hkuros260657-

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