Title
Woods, Peter, "Life Histories and Teacher Knowledge," pp. 121-135 in John Smyth, ed., Educating Teachers: Changing the Nature of Pedagogical Knowledge. Philadelphia: Falmer, 1987.*
Annotation
Discusses life histories of teachers as a mode of contrasting self-knowledge by teachers; pleads the case for employing ethnographic studies of teachers' life histories to understand how teachers construct their pedagogical knowledge.
Broad Topical Focus
Curriculum Enactment and Teaching, Curriculum Inquiry Guidelines
Source Discipline
Education
Mode of Inquiry in the Study
Phenomenological Inquiry, Narrative Inquiry
Type of Study
Single Study
Narrow Topic
Knowledge Generation, Teacher Knowledge, Comparative Curriculum
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