本书主要是对中国英语教学以及中国英语教学的改革做了讨论。研究采用的是叙述性探究的方法。叙述性探究是一种质性的研究方法，与量性的方法不同。书中主题主要围绕三位英语教师的身份认同，个人实践知识和专业知识之间的关系，身为教师和课程设计之间的关系这三个话题展开。通过研究教师的经历和方法，让叙述性研究法在中国被更多的教师接受和使用。

Chapter 1 The Research Puzzle

Chapter 2 Related Literature

2.1 Contexts of Engish Teaching in China

2.2 Teacher Knowledge, Teaching Context and Teacher Identity

2.3 Tensions and Dilemmas Teachers Experience on the Shifting Landscape

Chapter 3 Narrative Inquiry

3.1 The Beginning of My Written Nanatives

3.2 Living in the Field

3.3 Composing Field Texts

3.4 Composing Research Texts

Chapter 4 My Narrative Accounts

4.1 Space of My Living and Learning

4.2 Elementary School Life

4.3 Junior High School

4.4 S-miner Private Engtish Class

4.5 End-of-Junior-High Carnival

4.6 Senior High School Cafisis

4.7 City High School Life

4.8 New Strategies egies of Learning English

4.9 Engish Major

4.10 Lost in College and City Life

4.11 Working as an English Teacher

4.12 Stories of Retuming to Teach

Chapter 5 Mey's Narrative Accounts

5.1 Coming to Mey's Narratives

5.2 Mey's Living Space and Schooling

5.3 Mey's Undergraduate Life

5.4 Mey in America

5.5 Mey Became a Teacher

5.6 Mey as a Teacher

Chapter 6 Lee's Narrative Accounts

6.1 Lee's Living Space and His Early Schools

6.2 Lee's University Life

6.3 Lee's an English Teacher

Chapter 7 Narrative Overlappings

7.1 Our Starting Landscapes

7.2 Our School Landscapes

7.3 Our Teaching Landscapes

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