Positive teacher-child relationships are key factors for children’s social-emotional development and academic success in schools. Teachers’ ability to provide children with emotional support and understand children’s unique needs may improve challenging behaviors in the classroom. Play-based teacher intervention training models provide teachers opportunities to become therapeutic agents and lea...

We propose a novel methodology for analyzing language teacher narrative inquiry: recurrent restorying, teachers engaging in analysis and re-storying of their own previously storied learning-to-teach experiences, concepts, self-understandings as unbounded by time place. In inquiry is tool-and-result activity (Vygotsky, 1978) that the variously experiences within education program are data, thems...