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McDonald, Denise, Cheryl Craig, Carrie Markello and Michele Kahn. 2016. Our Academic Sandbox: Scholarly Identities Shaped through Play, Tantrums, Building Castles, and Rebuffing Backyard Bullies. The Qualitative Report 21 (6) : 1145–1163. 19 pp. URL
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English

Abstract

This paper focuses on the ‘Academic Sandbox’ metaphor employed in four teacher educators’ stories to describe their scholarly identities. By using the qualitative research methodology of narrative inquiry, the four ‘Sandbox’ metaphors of ‘Play’, ‘Tantrums’, ‘Building castles’ and ‘Rebuffing backyard bullies’ are explored in different stories of academic formation and development.