What about Rose? · Using Teacher Research to Reverse School Failure by Wilson, Smokey -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction

I Meet Up with Basic Skills The Students I Came to Know Understanding School Failure: Seeking Answers Why Classroom Research Matters Theories That Matter A Map Through the Volume

Part I: GETTING STARTED

Chapter 1: Rose: Reversing School Failure

In Practice In Theory: Educational Psychology Dominates In Response: The Deficit Theories Weaken The Aftermath: Deficit Theories Linger In Retrospect: The Legacy of Deficit Theories

Chapter 2: Mark: Repeating School Failure

In Practice In Theory: Psycho- and Sociolinguistics Take Center Stage In Response: The Other Side of the Deficit Coin In Retrospect: Where Were the Teachers?

Part II: FINDING A FOCUS

Chapter 3: Kelly: Schooling as Irrelevant

In Practice In Theory: Macrostructural Approaches Appear In Response: The Social System View In Retrospect: Finding Teachers’ Voices

Chapter 4: Anthony: Transforming Talk Into Writing

In Practice In Theory: Microanalysis Appears In Response: A Focus at Last

Part III: COLLECTING ARTIFACTS

Chapter 5: Darleen: Literacy Beyond Skills

In Practice In Theory: Social Construction Emerges In Response: A Place of My Own In Retrospect: Catching Literacy from a Teacher

Chapter 6: Gloria and Ruth: Student–Teacher Interactions

In Practice In Theory: Social Construction Develops In Response: Constructing Writing Collaboratively In Retrospect: Finding School Success

Part IV: ANALYZING ARTIFACTS

Chapter 7: From Talking to Writing, From Questioning to Finding

Research Into Practice The Study: Overview of Analysis and Findings Preparing for Analysis Findings from the Analysis Checking Other Variables In Response: Literacy Questions in Light of These Findings In Retrospect: What I Learned

Chapter 8: Maybell: Moving Toward an Academic Identity

In Practice In Theory: Resistance and Identity In Response: The Study The Two Cases: Making Meaning In Retrospect: “If They Can Do It, I Can Do It”

Part V: WRITING IT UP

Chapter 9: Reflections: Lessons from Classroom Research

The Students I Came to Know Theory Into Practice: Regarding School Success In Classrooms: Transforming Talk Into Writing In Theory: A Review of Social Construction In Response: What We Can Learn from Classroom Research In Retrospect: Yesterday and Tomorrow

Guide to Classroom Research for Teachers Contents

Introduction

Trusting the Research Process How This Guide Is Organized

I. Getting Started

Reflecting Research as Reading Research as Observing A Teacher-Research Group Getting Started Exercises

II. Finding a Focus

Using Reading to Find a Focus Advice on Focusing Running with Your Focus Finding a Focus Exercise

III. Collecting Artifacts

Observations by Eye and Ear The Steps of Observation

IV. Analyzing Artifacts

The Many Shapes of Interpretation

V. Writing It Up

Writing Advice: Easy to Give, Hard to Follow Report Formats Finding Our Form

References Index

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