Finding the reward in the challenge : Teachers' stories of balancing difficult relationships with students

• In order to successfully teach all students teachers need to handle challenging relations to/ with students. This paper aims to use teachers’ stories to find important clues to how teachers think about such challenges. Six teachers’ seemingly contradictory answers to two questions in a questionnaire in which they identified the same student as a source of trouble and joy were analyzed as stories. Four perspectives into teacher-student relationships were identified: problems, contradictions, closeness and improvement. Teachers’ stories about relationships provide important clues to the everyday creation of relationships that help students succeed. 

Ämnesord

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Utbildningsvetenskap -- Didaktik (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Educational Sciences -- Didactics (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

teacher knowledge

student behavior/attitude

narrative

teaching context

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