本书标志着教师研究领域向前发展的重要一步。本书为教师的声音、教师的人生里程和新的分析路径与新的教学研究模式提供了至关重要的领域整合。此著作的出版从根本上帮助和加深了我们对教师教育问题与教师研究的再现危机的认识与理解，并展示了新的发展路径。

The book Developing Professional Knowledge about Teachers represents a significant step forward in our work with teachers. This book provides a vital link between work on teachers' voices, life-history and new patterns of analysis and pedagogy. The book fits into our growing understanding of the crisis of teacher education and of the representational crisis at the root of some of the problems.

Chapter One Introduction: Understanding Teachers in Changing Contexts

Chapter Two Navigating the Conceptual Landscape

 Mapping the Field

 The Knowledge-base for Teachers

 The Teachers' Voices

 Images and Metaphors

 Stories and Folkways

 Life-history and Critical Incidents

Chapter Three Life-history Narrative Perspective

 Approaches to Studying Teachers

 What Is Life-history Narrative Perspective?

 On Narrative

 Life-history

 The Main Issues with Narrative Perspectives

 Why Life-history Narrative Perspective?

 Ethics and Trustworthiness

Chapter Four Diachronic Analysis

 Understanding Life-history Narrative as Data

 Diachronic and Synchronic Framework

 A Case of Intergenerational Analysis of Three Teachers.

 Change and Continuity

 Life-history as Learning to Teach

Chapter Five Synchronic Analysis

 Narrative Accounts of Two Novice Teachers

 Narrative Accounts of Five Experienced Teachers Narrative Accounts of a Veteran Teacher

Chapter Six Pedagogy as Caring

 Caring and Grammar Teaching

 Care for Those Who Care

Chapter Seven Post-epiphany

 Appendix 1 A Sample of Biographic-narrative Interview

 Appendix 2 A Sample Follow-up Conversation

References

List of Diagrams

 Diagram 1: Narrative research: three-dimensional nature

 Diagram 2: Diachronic and synchronic analysis with metaphor, life-story and critical incident

 Diagram 3: A chart of key metaphors of the three generational teachers

 Diagram 4: Pedagogy intertwined with caring and grammar teaching