Cultivating Care, Wellbeing, and Reflection in Teacher Educat... - 9781041244448

Cultivating Care, Wellbeing, and Reflection in Teacher EducationStories That Teach\nAuthor(s): Kinga Varga-Dobai\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781041244448, 978-1041244448\nSynopsis\nThis book explores how storytelling can be used as a care-oriented, trauma-informed, and socially, culturally, and emotionally sustaining teaching tool in teacher education.\n\nStorytelling is not simply a teaching strategy or writing technique, but a pedagogical framework and embodied methodology a way of thinking, learning, and being that supports questioning, reflection, and connection with students and preservice teachers. The book positions storytelling as a transformative literacy practice that integrates care, cognition, identity, and learning and is grounded in relational ethics and transnational feminist perspectives on voice, identity, and belonging.\n\nThrough storytelling, students and teachers engage not only in literac.