Narrative Inquiry in Early Childhood and Elementary School

Narrative Inquiry in Early Childhood and Elementary School: Learning to Teach, Teaching Well facilitates meaningful change in early years education by providing early childhood and elementary school teachers with methods to incorporate narrative into their instruction and inquiry.

Stephanie Sisk-Hilton is Associate Professor of Elementary Education at San Francisco State University, USA. Daniel R. Meier is Professor of Elementary Education at San Francisco State University, USA.

Foreword by Marianna Souto-Manning Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Why Narrative Inquiry? Chapter 2: Problems and Puzzles for Inquiry: What Story Are We Telling? Chapter 3: Narrative-Based Tools and Strategies - Telling a Good Story Chapter 4: Telling Someone Else's Story: Narrative Inquiry for Understanding Individual Children Chapter 5: Narrative Inquiry as a Support for Curricular Innovation Chapter 6: Narrative Inquiry and Language and Literacy Teaching Chapter 7: Pulling It All Together: Narrative Inquiry in Action Chapter 8: Narrative Inquiry and Educational Change Authors' Biographies References Index