Following unnamed rivers and ruminating on teaching as vocation
department or school: Education, Faculty of
department or school: Curriculum and Pedagogy (EDCP), Department of
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degree campus: UBCV
creator: Scott, Jeanette Elynn MacArthur
issued: 2009-04-03T23:55:19Z
issued: 1996
related degree: Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: The research which is reported in this text is probably best described as an interpretive inquiry which situates itself in the space between theory and practice and which explores the questions: What do teachers' stories tell us about the call of teaching? and How does drama help teachers to remember and to tell their stories? Originally imagined as a phenomenological study of teaching as a vocation, this project has slipped to the Acheron1 edge of academic research and, in so doing, it has been reborn(e) as a tapestry of words. The fabric of the text is an intertwining of threads of ideas, feelings and imaginings, a pulling out and a weaving in of bits of the tangled and worn, a playing with different textures and different tones. The common threads of the warp, consisting of a series of personal ruminations on the emergence, the development, the completion and the implications of a research project, lend a unity and a strength to the piece. The weft, which incorporates both old yarns and new y(e)arns, is intentionally a coarse interweaving of dark and light, common and exotic fibres. All of the parts are connected as in a Celtic knot with the text of the drama, written as a presentation of the data that were collected, at the centre. In part, drawing upon images of the arts; in part, borrowing from Zen Buddhism the metaphor of searching for the bull as the search for the eternal truth, the whole work suggests that the call of teaching emerges from a polyphony of voices, that it is heard and responded to in a similar contrapuntality of difference. In keeping with the tradition of an hermeneutic circle, the parts are seen within the whole and the whole within the parts. The fabric, as such, is a loose weave so that spaces are provided wherein the reader is invited to read in and write out or write in and read out whatever questions or answers that s/he intuits hidden among the threads.
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note: Following Unnamed Rivers and Ruminating on Teaching as a Vocation by Jeanette Elynn MacArthur Scott M.A., The University of British Columbia, 1985 B.A., The University of British Columbia, 1965 A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES (Department of Curriculum and Instruction) We accept this thesis as conforming . > to the required standard THE UNIVERSITY^ BRITISH COLUMBIA November, 1996 © Jeanette E. M. Scott, 1996 In presenting this thesis in partial fulfilment of the requirements for ' an advanced degree at the University of British Columbia, I agree that the Library shall make it freely available for reference and study. I further agree that permission for extensive copying of this: thesis for scholarly purposes may be granted, by. the head of my department or by his or her representatives. It is understood that copying or publication of this thesis for financial gain shall not be allowed without my written permission. \^'\ : ' ' ' j \ Department of <~— The University of British Columbia ^Vancouver, Canada , , ' v Pate DE-6 (2/88) Abstract The research which is reported i n this text is probably best described as an interpretive inquiry which situates itself i n the space between theory and practice and which explores the questions: What do teachers' stories tell us about the call of teaching? and How does drama help teachers to re-member and to tell their stories? Originally imagined as a phenomenological study of teaching as a vocation, this project has slipped to the Acheron 1 edge of academic research and, i n so doing, it has been reborn(e) as a tapestry of words. The fabric of the text is an intertwining of threads of ideas, feelings and imaginings, a pulling out and a weaving i n of bits of the tangled and worn, a playing with different textures and different tones. The common threads of the warp, consisting of a series of personal ruminations on the emergence, …
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 1997-05
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0054777
language: eng
degree discipline: Curriculum Studies
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publisher: University of British Columbia
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scholar level: Graduate
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/6807