Casestudies over het pedagogische handelen bij een sterfgeval in de klas

Samenvatting

ITE (Initial Teacher Education) cannot prepare students in practice how to respond to bereavement inside their classroom when confronted with this phenomenon. Current case studies can help to solve this problem. In this article, I present the cases of teachers, who had this experience inside their infant class. The case studies are based on four concepts, i.e. narrative identity, contingency, religion, and pedagogical action. Main question of the research is: to what extent is there a relationship between the life stories of teachers in Dutch Catholic primary education and the intentionality of their pedagogical action, when they are confronted with bereavement inside their classroom. At the end of the article some recommendations are given that can be used in ITE.