Stories of Men and Teaching: A New Narrative Approach to Understanding Masculinity and Education (SpringerBriefs in Education Book 0)

This book investigates the dynamic relationship between masculinity, fiction and teaching answering one central question. How are male teachers influenced by fictional narratives in the construction of masculinities within education? It achieves this in three major steps: by describing a methodological system of narrative analysis that is able to account for the influence of a fictional text alongside a reading of interview data, by focusing on a specific cohort of male teachers in order to measure the influence of a fictional text and the literary tropes they contain, both widening and restricting perceptions of teachers and teaching. The book demonstrates how fictional narratives and their encompassing ideologies can become a powerful force in the shaping of male teachers professional identities. The book focuses on a collection of 22 fictional narratives drawn from the teacher text genre. Each text describes the world of teachers and teaching from differing perspectives, in differing forms including, literary texts; dramatic works such as plays or musicals; feature films; and television and radio series. The teacher text is a popular and prolific genre. As part of the analysis the book pilots an innovative methodological process hat reconciles the structural and textual differences between fictional texts and interview data in an effort to find points of commonality and mutual influence. Stories of Men and Teaching reveals how teaching professionals utilise tropes found in fictional texts in chaotic and unstructured ways to manage points of professional intensity as they arise. Key features such as legacy, fear, belonging, reparation and violence are identified as themes that occupy male teachers most when considering their own identity and professional performance, and each is also represented in the fictional teacher text canon.--Publisher's website Fiction and MasculinityNarrative Studies and Masculinity; Intersection B: Narrative and Education; Intersection C: Masculinity and Education; Boys and Education; Teachers and the Institution; 3 Theory, Types and Tropes; Abstract; Desire in the Teacher Text; Emerging Methods and Application; A Hermeneutic Circle; The Process; Fact and Fiction: Designing a Theory Fit for Purpose; Using Ricoeur: Developing a Taxonomy; Literary Analysis; Developing a Taxonomy; Using Deleuze: Concepts and Becomings; Part IIStories of Teaching Men; 4 Stories of Teaching; Abstract; The Narrative Interview Process The Analytical ProcessStory 1: Deleuze and Multiple Tropes; Stuart; Stuart and Multiple Tropes; Stuart--Summary; Story 2: Fear and Reflection; Tom; Tom and the Fear of Reflection; Tom--Summary; Story 5: Sydney; Sydney; Sydney a Singular Trope; Sydney--Summary; Conclusion; 5 Methodological Innovation, Masculinities and Critical Reflective Practice; Abstract; Methodological Innovation; Masculinities in Education; Critical Reflective Practice; Conclusion; 6 Endings, Beginnings and Becomings; Abstract; My Mr. Mulberry; Influential Agents; Future Projects; Narrative Endings; Appendix Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Part ITools and Environments; 1 Introduction; Abstract; Personal and Professional Significance; Personal Significance; Bedminster, Bristol 1969; Personal Narratives; Professional Significance; Research Focus; Scope and Overview; 2 The Research Environment; Abstract; Narrative--A Matter of Context; Masculinity/Masculinities; Perspectives on Gender: Masculinity, Masculinities and Gender; Masculinities--A New Hegemony; Education; Teacher Education and Critical Reflective Practice; The Intersections; Intersection A: Narrative and Masculinity Front Matter....Pages i-x Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Introduction....Pages 3-9 The Research Environment....Pages 11-25 Theory, Types and Tropes....Pages 27-36 Front Matter....Pages 37-38 Stories of Teaching....Pages 39-54 Methodological Innovation, Masculinities and Critical Reflective Practice....Pages 55-61 Endings, Beginnings and Becomings....Pages 63-67 Back Matter....Pages 69-76