The Cultivation of a Teacher in a Classroom Community

• Main Author: Mottley, Melinda
• Other Authors: Human Development
• Format: Others
• Published: Virginia Tech 2014
• Subjects: teacher research; begining teaching; self-study
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/42778; http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05232003-133755/

The purpose of this study was to examine the dilemmas and tensions the researcher encountered as a teachers in a university-based lab school. Specifically, she examined the tensions within the context of the seemingly contradictory role expectations that were required of her as a student who was also a teacher. This autobiographical form of self study was based on the principles of action research, of linking theory and practice through a cyclical process of action and reflection. The findings were reported in a narrative form and describe the process of how one woman came to know and understand herself as a teacher and an individual through her life inside and outside of the classroom. === Master of Science