lived, and told Narrative inquiries of geographically close schools: Stories given

Using the story constellations version of narrative inquiry, I tell of two schoolsCochrane Academy and Hardy Academythat evolved from a shared social narrative history and that were given stories of school and stories of reform that had many features in common. I detail how the founding principals narratives informed the teachers knowledge and shaped the school contexts in distinctive ways. I illuminate how different confluences of factors gave rise to different metaphorswith different interpretive twiststhat the educators subsequently came to live school reform by.

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