Abstract
This self-study uses narrative inquiry and the “best-loved self” heuristic to examine how educators sustain themselves along their career continuums. The work highlights the importance of knowledge development through human interactions in communities of knowing and asserts the value of thinking again. Hope for a better future—in whatever form it appears—is the overarching theme.
The years teach much which the days never knew… (Emerson 1844)
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I borrowed the word, trump, from the title of Larry Cuban’s book, How Scholars Trumped Teachers (Cuban 1993).
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Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are anger and courage. Anger at the way things are and courage to see that they do not remain as they are (St. Augustine).
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Craig, C.J. (2019). Sustaining Self and Others in the Teaching Profession: A Personal Perspective. In: Murray, J., Swennen, A., Kosnik, C. (eds) International Research, Policy and Practice in Teacher Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01612-8_6
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