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Alice, great character, great book, great writer.  I always find a clue, a tip, a moment for silence and reflection while embedded in her mysterious world. Now, in this challenging academic writing practice I'm trying to explore, I found you, again, my dear Alice! And I can't do any other thing than read, read again, and keep on reading all the time! Until the looking-glass reflects my search! CHAPTER II THE GARDEN OF LIVE FLOWERS        “I should see the garden far better”, said Alice to herself, “if I could get to the top of the hill: and here’s a path that gets straight to it –at least, no, it doesn’t do that”- (after going a few yards along the path, and turning several sharp corners), “but I suppose it will at last. But how curiously it twists! It’s more than a corkscrew than a path! Well, this turn goes to the hill, I suppose –no, it doesn’t! This goes straight back to the house! Well then, I’ll try it the other way.”   ...

MILE Narratives in Teacher Education: A Framework for a better Practice      The bell rings, teacher and students enter in the classroom and the action starts. Speak, write, listen to, read. Write again, socialize, express results, learn from mistakes. It seems as if writing scholar pieces of lives permeate and shape a teacher’s routine. Educators write, students write, all the time, with different purposes, to different audiences. But, an inquiry emerges. Are teachers sufficiently aware of their interventions? Are they accurate observers and strategic writers? What could be done to delve into expertise perspective? Dolk, M. & del Hertog, J. (2008) in Narratives in teacher education . Interactive Learning Environments,  provide student teachers a useful tool to observe, analyse and finally reach to a meaningful interpretation as regards their daily practice. Knowing the constraints that vignettes and journal entries might present, the experts go beyon...