Unfolding the Unexpectedness of Uncertainty: Creative Nonfiction and the Lives of Becoming Teachers -- DEDICATION -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- FOREWORD: WONDERING ALOUD & WANDERING ALLOWED: Ten Gestures Toward a Foreword -- CREATIVE NONFICTION AS A METHOD OF INQUIRY -- Creative nonfiction as arts research -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 1: UNFOLDING: RUTH'S STORY -- I'm going to build a bridge -- If you fail to plan, you plan to fail -- Walking over the bridge -- I am the paintbrush -- The long practicum went really well -- There's a new bridge to cross -- CHAPTER 2: UNEXPECTEDNESS: ANN'S STORY -- It runs in my blood -- I just felt like I was going to a residential school or something -- I've always been an activist-type person -- I found myself in a place I visited often -- I just swallow hard -- I want to try new things and experiment -- I had to be a root of care to the tree of unhappiness that lived in the classroom -- I hope to open their eyes -- CHAPTER 3: UNCERTAINTY: NATHALIE'S STORY -- I have no real expectations of this program -- She wants to be the 'cool teacher' -- I was so invisible -- I felt like I was overreacting a little bit -- I have to be a good role model -- It feels good so far -- A game of dramatic hats -- My challenge was to focus on the positive -- Becoming a good teacher -- AFTERWORD: WIDENING CIRCLES OF LIFE WRITING AS A LITERATURE OF SELF IN RELATION: A LETTER IN LIEU OF AN AFTERWORD -- REFERENCES -- BIOGRAPHY.