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- W323236475 abstract "It is true that storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it, that it brings about consent and reconciliation with things as they really are, and that we may even trust it to contain, eventually by implication, that last word which we expect from the 'day of judgment.' (Arendt, 2007, pp. 270-271) The Professional Development School (PDS) literature is filled with the stuff of good storytelling--archetypes of an ancient profession, struggles of marginalized individuals against powerful structures, personal triumphs, and devotion to a quest. However, much of the writing about PDS experiences that could be considered storytelling tends to simply recount events with some minimal emphasis on the feelings of participants, more informal language, and personal relationships. As a result, the reader is left with something that is not quite a meaningful story but not quite research either. Why PDSs and Why Now? There are indications that the PDS movement may be at an uncertain point in its development. There are signs of the movement's continued strength--an on-going commitment from the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE). the growing membership of the National Association of Professional Development Schools (NAPDS) (www.napds.org/about_napds), and a healthy Special Interest Group in the American Educational Research Association (AERA). On the other hand, numerous conversations at conferences and other anecdotal sources hint that the impact of budget cuts, the lack of evidence of effectiveness, and the time and resource intensive nature of the PDS might be leading toward stagnation or even decline. In either scenario, it is important that we reexamine what and how we write about PDS partnerships. If the movement is growing despite a lack of strong research and theory, then we need to determine whether the growth is warranted or provides a strong evidential basis for continued support at a time of shrinking resources. If the movement is in decline, then we need to document what led to the decline and search for insights into why such a promising reform has not worked. I have spent a considerable amount of my professional life working in and researching PDSs and the literature written about them. After working in several PDS settings, talking to dozens of colleagues from PDSs across the country, and reading hundreds of articles, papers, and books on the subject, I am convinced where PDSs have not lived up to their promise or failed altogether the problem has been due less to insufficient resources than to dysfunctional relationships and a lack of understanding, recognition, and imagination. In the project described here I advocate for a genre of PDS literature that might better capture the human and relational dimensions of PDS work. While there is an immediate, literary, or aesthetic appeal to the idea, there are also practical, utilitarian purposes to be mined. First, it is not always easy to write the truth about a partnership. As Murrell (2001) argued, once in schools, the fear of offending or alienating cooperating teachers and host schools makes it difficult to interrogate and conduct a critique of existing classroom practices and school culture that is prerequisite to substantive change. Fictionalized accounts of real PDS activities might allow an author to explore issues related to problematic partners in an allegorical way that has been used by revolutionaries and subversives throughout history. Second, this new genre could also sharpen the research skills and interactional insights of the researcher by demanding closer attention not only to what participants do but how they do it, how they respond to others, and the dynamics of internal politics. One brings to mind Virginia Woolf's attention to both the interior lives of her characters and the minutia of their external lives or Dicken's attention to ethnographic detail in describing the underclass of London. …" @default.
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