NARRATIVE VISIONS OF SCHOOLING

Three teams of prospective teachers created and presented school ''por traits'' based on research in an elementary school setting. The storie s of their efforts and narrative decisions reveal that each team moved from a point of view external to the school to one more internally si tuated in the actions of teaching. As the students constructed their o wn stories of the school, their relationships with others in the schoo l setting, to their own knowledge about schooling, and to their educat ional decision-making were all impacted, resulting in powerful visions of schooling. Copyright (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.