D. Jean Clandinin

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Reflective Journeys Attending to our Footprints

• D. Jean Clandinin
• Centre for Research for Teacher Education and
  Development
• University of Alberta

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Conversation One

• Narrative Reflective Practice
• Living, Telling, Retelling and Reliving Stories

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Three Narrative Conceptualizations Central to
Reflective Practice

• Teacher knowledge is experiential,
• embodied, emotional, moral,
• personal, practical.

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Three Narrative Conceptualizations Central to
Reflective Practice

• 2. A narrative view of life as stories we
• live and tell.

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Three Narrative Conceptualizations Central to
Reflective Practice

• 3. Education is a process of learning
• to tell and retell stories of
• teachers and students.

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Four terms living telling
retelling reliving to structure the
process of engaging in narrative reflective
practice.
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Learning to tell stories is difficult, risky
work. Retelling stories is even more difficult
than telling stories.
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In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is
a possible heresy we live by stories, we also
live in them. One way or another we are living
the stories planted in us early or along the
way, or we are also living the stories we planted
- knowingly or unknowingly - in ourselves. We
live stories that either give our lives meaning
or negate it with meaninglessness. If we change
the stories we live by, quite possibly we change
our lives (King, 2003, p. 153).
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Provocative Proposition

• Can we really learn to shift our stories?

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Conversation Two

• Considerations for Creating Pedagogical Spaces
  for Narrative Reflective Practice

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Pedagogical SpacesArrogant Perception,
Loving Perception, World Travelling
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Pedagogical SpacesSpaces for Story Telling
and Story Retelling
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Pedagogical Spaces

• Over time
• Multiple activities
• Sharing within a sustained response community
• Works-in-progress
• Reading

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Pedagogical SpacesAsking questions that point
toward temporality, the personal, the social,
place.
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Pedagogical SpacesTelling stories into
storied landscapes.
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Provocative Proposition

• Creating spaces for telling and retelling stories
  is challenging.

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Conversation Three

• Considerations Around Sustaining Counterstories
• Wakefulness and Response

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SummonsRobert FrancisKeep me from going to
sleep too soonOr if I go to sleep too soonCome
wake me up. Come any hourOf night. Come
whistling up the road.Stomp on the porch. Bang
on the door.Make me get out of bed and comeAnd
let you in and light a light.Tell me the
northern lights are onAnd make me look. Or tell
me cloudsAre doing something to the moonThey
never did before, and show me.See that I see.
Talk to me tillIm half as wide awake as youAnd
start to dress wondering whyI ever went to bed
at all.Tell me the walking is superb.Not only
tell me but persuade me.You know Im not too
hard persuaded.
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Waking Up

• Waking up
• Response or inquiry communities
• Staying at it

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Waking Up

• Waking up
• The place of imagination
• Attending closely
• Slowing down

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A Response Community

• Found communities
• Communities of choice

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Staying At It

• Resistance and subordination
• Counterstories

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Provocative Proposition

• Working together we can shift institutional
  narratives.

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Conversation Four

• Considerations Around Ethical Dilemmas

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Relational, Responsive, Responsible Ethics in
Narrative Reflective Practice.
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Want a different ethic?Tell a different
story.
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Provocative Proposition

• Narrative reflective practice is full of ethical
  dilemmas.