In this book, teachers from a variety of backgrounds reflect upon their journeys into and within teaching to discuss the impact of their diverse experiences on the ways in which they teach. The authors adopt a variety of autoethnographic approaches in telling stories of transition and profound transformation as they each discuss how certain events in their lives have shaped their professional identities and methods of teaching. In telling their stories they also tell stories of the culture and process of education. This offers the opportunity to consider the narratives as examples of how individuals and groups respond in different ways to institutional and national policies on education. In these chapters, the authors offer illumination from a number of perspectives, of how practitioners of education make meaning of their lives and work in our changing times.By capturing these personal stories, this book will inform and support readers who are studying to become teachers and those already working in education by developing their understanding and empathy with the role.Autoethnography can develop self-knowledge and understanding in the reader and writer of such texts, offering unique insights and individual ways of being that will benefit students and staff in a range of educational settings. This book values the telling and sharing of stories as a strategy for enabling teachers to learn from one another and help them to feel more supported.The book will be useful for teachers and teacher educators, students of education, and all researchers interested in autoethnography and self-narrative.

Thirty Two Ways to Tell a Story of Teaching: Self-Narrative and Pedagogy; No Craft More Privileged; Project Time-Travel: Reflections on Learning by Revisiting Childhood School Projects; Toilets Are the Proper Place for Outputs! A Tale of Knowledge Production and Publishing with Students in Higher Education; Beginning to Unravel a Narrative Tension in my Professional Learning about Teaching Writing; Worms, Birds and Rabbits Pigs and Dragons: Thoughts on Teaching and Learning; Reframing Identity: Exploring my Pedagogy through Memories of the Past; How the Hell Did I End up Teaching?; Odyssey of the Soul: My Journey into Teaching; Soaring and Tumbling: An Autoethnography from Higher Education; About the Authors.