Teacher Inquiries in Literacy Teaching-Learning

Learning To Collaborate in Elementary Urban Classrooms
Herausgeber: Pappas, Christine C.; Zecker, Liliana Barro; Zecker, Liliana

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book consists of the reports of 13 urban elementary teacher researchers' year-long inquiries around literacy topics--conducted as part of a collaborative school-university action research project. The focus is on how they attempted to transform their teaching practices to meet the needs of students from diverse ethnic and linguistic backgrounds, and how their inquiry efforts resulted in developing more collaborative styles of teaching. These teachers explore how collaborative classroom interactions occur when teachers move away from teaching-as-transmission approaches to ones in which they share power and authority with their students--viewing them not as 'at risk' but instead as 'at promise.' Because the everyday interactions between teachers and students are realized by social talk in the classroom, classroom discourse was analyzed to study and document the teacher researchers' efforts to make changes in the locus of power in literacy teaching and learning. Their chapters are filled with classroom discourse examples to illustrate their points. The volume includes teacher inquiries conducted in elementary classrooms from kindergarten through eighth grade. Three took place in bilingual classrooms, one in a special education class. These inquires cover a range of literacy topics, including reading-aloud, language richness, writing, literature discussion groups, drama, and 'pretend' reading. The background and theoretical underpinnings of the project are discussed in an introduction written by the editors; in the conclusion they pull together the major themes in the teacher researchers' chapters and discuss the political implications of their efforts to change literacy teaching and learning in their urban classrooms.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 393g
• ISBN-13: 9780805824001
• ISBN-10: 0805824006
• Artikelnr.: 21727411

Autorenporträt

Christine C. Pappas

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface. C.C. Pappas, L.B. Zecker, Introduction: Creating
Collaborative Relations of Power in Literacy Teaching-Learning. S.W.
Soltero, Exploring Language Richness in a Bilingual Kindergarten Classroom.
D. Collier, Pretend Reading Is for Everybody in Kindergarten--Even the
Boys! A. Barry, Now I Know My ABC's, Plus a Whole Lot More! Using Alphabet
Books With First Graders. P. Wolfer, My Journey to Create a Writing
Workshop for First Graders. S. Cohen, Learning How to Scaffold Second
Graders to Become Authors in a Bilingual Classroom. H. Jones, Creating
Safety Zones in Reading Aloud to Empower Second Graders as Readers. R.L.
Mehra, Fostering Second Graders' Participation in Literacy Activities
Around a Novel Study. D.A. O'Malley, It Is Never Too Late to Change!
Rethinking Read-Alouds for Third Graders. S.T. Pasewark, Promoting English
Through English Read-Alouds in a Third-Grade Bilingual Classroom. S.C.
Jacobson, For the Love of Reading: Inquiries in Reading Aloud and Creating
Literature Discussion Groups in Fourth Grade. P. Fowler, Reflections on
Drama in a Sixth-Grade Classroom: A Year of Discovery. B. Braun, How to
Loosen Tongues With Drama: Children Try in Their Own Way in a
Special-Education Classroom. M. Rassel, Teaching Research Writing: Our
Search for Voice in the Eighth Grade. C.C. Pappas, L.B. Zecker, Summary and
Ongoing Reflections: Struggles and Significance in Creating Collaborative
Interactions and Talk in Urban Classrooms.