Composing Teacher-Research

A Prosaic History

AvCathy Fleischer

Inbunden, Engelska, 1995

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This story of a teacher's growth as a researcher in the classroom reflects the larger issues of the debate about this kind of research during the last decade.In Composing Teacher-Research the author provides a much needed critical look at the teacher-research movement by recounting her own experiences over the past decade. Informed by readings in a number of disciplines and by her own classroom practice, Fleischer documents the shifts and changes she made as a teacher when she took on the additional role of researcher. The book presents four case studies of classrooms and students, at both the high school and college level, focusing on the ways students see their own literacy in and out of school. Fleischer not only reproduces these case studies as they were written at various points in her journey, but provides commentary through pre- and post-scripts in which she points out particular issues of concern for those who practice classroom research: what it means to represent others' experiences, how we can create research which is at the same time ethical and pedagogically sound, how the stakes for being a teacher-researcher have changed in a postmodern world.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1995-03-09
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt:572 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:SUNY series, Teacher Preparation and Development
Antal sidor:286
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9780791423615

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Pedagogik inom Psykologi och pedagogik

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Cathy Fleischer is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Eastern Michigan Writing Project at Eastern Michigan University.

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"This is a wonderful book, in part because it is very readable, accessible to multiple audiences without sacrificing theoretical/ideological integrity, and draws on an impressive list of interdisiplinary resources. It is 'theory as autobiography,' and an exciting example of teacher research that demonstrates problems/issues of representation, subjectivities. Fleischer provides one exciting example of passionate research!" — David Schaafsma, University of Wisconsin-Madison"Fleischer's unique contribution in the work is to reveal to practicing teachers how close at hand the problems for study are to them, how unfussy their methods of undertaking those studies may be and still be intellectually sound. She gives legitimacy to every-day insights. I believe her work will serve as a model for a repertoire of practices that teachers in schools may undertake. She makes complex theory accessible as gracefully as she makes students come alive on the pages of her book." — Patricia Lambert Stock, Michigan State University

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments 1. A Pratitioner's Retrospective Introduction: The Picture Albums of a Prosaic HistoryThe Mantle of Research: Learning to Remove the ArmorLearning New Ways: The Winks upon Winks upon Winks of EthnographyOne Foot in Each World: What Kind of Researcher Am I Anyway?Fusing Horizons: Research With—Not Research On Pronouns as a Political Problem; Or What Do We mean when We Say "We"?Fusing Horizons: Connecting Literacy, Pedagogy, and ResearchBeyond Representational ResearchCan You Have Conclusions in a Postmodern Ethnography 2. Forming Literacy: Akemi's Story IntroductionForming Literacy: Akemi's Story (May 1987)Postscript: Reflections on Akemi's Story 3. Forming Literacy: Sarah's Story IntroductionForming Literacy: Sarah's Story (December 1988)Sarah in High School: The Struggle between Authoritative and Internally Persuasive DiscourseSarah in College: Authoritative Discourse Wins OutThe Separation of Internally Persuasive and Authoritative DiscoursesPostscript: Reflections on Sarah's Story 4. Re-forming Literacy: High School Students Become Researchers IntroductionRe-forming Literacy: High School Students Become Researchers (July 1988)Postscript: Reflections on "High School Students Become Researchers" 5. Re-forming Literacy: Researchers Write Together IntroductionRe-forming Literacy: Researchers Write Together (June 1990)Cathy's TurnJohn's TurnSusan's TurnCathy's Turn 6. A Postscript to Composing Teacher-Research: A Work in Progress Stock: "The Function of the Anecdote in Teacher Research"Schaafsma: Eating on the StreetLather: Getting SmartCommon ThreadsThe Emergent Case Study: A Work in Progress"The End of These Notes..." Appendix A: Akemi's Writing SampleAppendix B: Diery: KatyAppendix C: Motivational ForcesAppendix D: What Fourth-Hour Students WriteAppendix E: Characteristics of WritingAppendix F: Susan's WritingAppendix G: John's Writing Selected BibliographyIndex