<p>Fifteen-year-old Harriet Henderson has a new English teacher, Molly McInness, and all at once school seems full of possibilities. But, inspired by Molly and impelled by her own adolescent restlessness, Harriet makes an impulsive decision, a decision that takes her, her teacher and her new friend into complex and dangerous worlds."I can’t imagine having anything to read that would be more life-affirming or more in tune with the values that inform our work as educators."(Dr John Yandell, UCL Institute of Education, London, author &amp; journal editor)"A novel that will appeal to English teachers because of the sophistication of the shifts in point of view and the beauty of the prose. A wonderful book."Emeritus Professor Brenton Doecke, Chair in Education, Deakin University"A beautifully written and sensitive novel that should be shared with every teacher, student, parent and principal you know." Bec Palethorpe (ACT teacher)"This is a marvellous book which I found hard to put down. The book is full of twists and turns as the young characters pursue the creative paths that give them life. A must read!" Dr. Mary Macken-Horarik, Senior Research Fellow, Australian Catholic University"A story about a teacher, two students and a grandfather looking for the places where the openness can live, at least a little while, in an adult world of closures. A must for English teachers as they consider their commitments in these difficult teaching times."Dr Kim McCollum-Clark, Assoc Professor of English/English Education, Millersville University"It’s a story that has all sorts of stories inside it. It’s a book in which worlds overlap, collide and intersect, and where truth is complex. Yet the book is full of hope. A great read."Dr Margaret Byrne, author, film maker &amp; principal of UGM Consulting</p>

The Worlds of Harriet Henderson

Literature & Fiction

Shann, Steve

Literary

Steve Shann

Imagined Worlds and Classroom Realities: Mythopoetic Provocations for Teachers and Teacher Educators

Stories matter. Stories speak about complex aspects of our lives that intuitively we know are important but for which the language of rational discourse is often inadequate. Stories draw on archetypal structures and evocative language in ways that create affect: they penetrate, provoke, and disturb. This is a book of nine stories about teachers and students. A young woman sits in her first teacher-education lecture and wonders what kind of a tribe she is joining. A preservice teacher clashes with his mentor teacher on a practicum. A teacher and students inhabit an online space with unpredictable consequences. Sally discovers the Universarium. Joseph writes a story that undoes his therapist. Sylvia struggles to free herself from an oppressive discourse about the nature of teaching. Two siblings support and console each other through their complex inductions into classroom lifeworlds. A secondary student goes missing and police, the media and his teachers wonder why. A teacher-education academic wrestles with elusive ideas in order to prepare a lecture that he hopes will make a more-than-passing impact. There is no other book like Imagined Worlds and Classroom Realities. It not only tells nine gripping stories, but also positions these stories as part of a growing scholarship about story-telling. It includes, as well, practical ways of using the stories in teacher education and professional development.

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Brill Academic Pub

Sense Publishers

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