Susan Florio-Ruane - Teacher Education and the Cultural Imagination: Autobiography, Conversation, and Narrative

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Teacher Education
and the
Cultural Imagination

Autobiography, Conversation,
and Narrative

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Autobiography, Conversation,
and Narrative

Susan Florio-Ruane

Michigan State University

With the assistance of Julie deTar

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The author thanks Helen Barolini for permission to quote from her edited volume, The Dream Book: An Anthology of Writings by Italian American Women, originally published by Schocken Books in 1985. A revised of this book is published by Syracuse University Press (2000).

Portions of this text were adapted from material previously published by the authors in the following articles: Florio-Ruane, S. and de Tar, J. (1995). Conflict and consensus in teacher candidates' discussion of ethnic autobiography. English Education , vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 1139, and Florio-Ruane, S. (1997). CAE 1996 Presidential addressTo tell a new story: Reinventing narratives of culture, identity, and education. Anthropology and Education Quarterly . Vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 152162.

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Florio-Ruane, Susan.

Teacher education and cultural imagination: autobiography, conversation, and narrative / by Susan Florio-Ruane with the assistance of Julie de Tar.

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Includes bibliographical references (p.) and index.

ISBN 0-8058-2374-3 (cloth: alk. paper)ISBN 0-8058-2375-1 (pbk.: alk. paper)

1. EducationUnited StatesBibliographical methods. 2. TeachersTraining ofUnited States. 3. Multicultural educationUnited States. 4. Group readingUnited States. I. DeTar, Julie. II. Title.

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To the memory of my mother, Rita,
and for my niece, Samantha,
who is learning to keep the family stories
and tell new ones of her own.

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