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Editorial Introduction, Gordon Wells
Editorial Introduction, Gordon Wells
Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research
Welcome to Networks. This is a significant moment for teacher research: the first issue of an online journal in which teacher researchers can share their work with fellow educators and take part in the dialogue to improve and better understand ways of supporting and extending learning, from pre-school to university.
Understanding Prolepsis Through Teacher Research, Phillip White
Understanding Prolepsis Through Teacher Research, Phillip White
Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research
Most often teacher research is written in a linear narrative form, bringing the reader along the story line of discovery much as the researcher herself made her discoveries. I have chosen a different approach, one I'll label as recursive narrative. This narrative form follows my own thinking processes, reflexive, discursive, moving recursively from present to future to past and back again, attempting to create a circular whole that is evident at the end. This recursive narrative form is reflective of the shape of prolepsis itself, analyzing an activity while taking into account its historical form, its present form, and considering …
Finding The Hidden Driveways: Observing Students At Work, Simon Hole
Finding The Hidden Driveways: Observing Students At Work, Simon Hole
Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research
My brother and I spent part of my 17th summer counting dogs for the township we lived in. At 15 cents per pooch, taking dog census was hardly going to make us rich, but it kept us busy and we could set our own schedule, which is why it was mid-August before we started driving down the last country road of the township.
Book Review: Creswell, John. (1997). Qualitative Inquiry And Research Design: Choosing Among Five Traditions., Catherine Compton Lilly
Book Review: Creswell, John. (1997). Qualitative Inquiry And Research Design: Choosing Among Five Traditions., Catherine Compton Lilly
Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research
As a teacher who has experimented with classroom research, I know that "doing research" can seem overwhelming. If you're like me, you took a research methodology course back in college which focused on deciphering quantitative studies and learning seemingly endless lists of terms like validity, sample, and verification. Now you may be involved in a teacher research group affiliated with a local college that meets monthly to discuss how people's research projects are progressing. However, that doesn't seem to be adequate to equip you for the research task. A book that I find particularly helpful is Qualitative Inquiry and Research …
Co-Researching With Students: Exploring The Value Of Class Discussions, Karen Hume
Co-Researching With Students: Exploring The Value Of Class Discussions, Karen Hume
Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research
Knowledge building is a term that's meant to suggest a particular stance in my classroom - a focus by all participants on knowledge as an object that is both constructed and continually improved through the multiple perspectives and competing viewpoints that we bring to a question. As various perspectives are raised, students marshal evidence to support their views and to contribute to the building of our collective understanding. Knowledge building, therefore, like almost all classroom activity, relies on oral and written discourse.
Giving Children Control: Fourth Graders Initiate And Sustain Discussions After Teacher Read-Alouds, Zoe Donoahue
Giving Children Control: Fourth Graders Initiate And Sustain Discussions After Teacher Read-Alouds, Zoe Donoahue
Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research
I have always allowed ample time for discussion after reading to the class, believing that it helps children to better understand the text on a basic level, as well as encouraging them to examine characters and their motivations, make predictions, discuss the author's style and choices and explore the characteristics of various genres of writing. The discussions were conducted in what is likely a typical manner: children would raise their hands if they had something to say and I would choose at random, trying to ensure that I gave as many as possible a chance to talk. The effect of …
Book Review: Davidson, A.L. (1996). Making And Molding Identity In Schools: Student Narratives On Race, Gender, And Academic Engagement., Katherine Goff
Book Review: Davidson, A.L. (1996). Making And Molding Identity In Schools: Student Narratives On Race, Gender, And Academic Engagement., Katherine Goff
Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research
Making and Molding Identity in Schools presents detailed case studies of six high school students to illustrate how racial and ethnic identities struggle against the school policies, discourses, and practices that work to reproduce social categories. Ann Locke Davidson also shows how some teachers and programs successfully challenge social categories. She expands on current social theories that link identity exclusively to cultural, ecomonic, and political forces by portraying how identities develop in ordinary, everyday activities that occur over time in different school settings. Some of the identities that the students learn prevent some of them from successfully engaging in practices …
Book Review: Gallas, Karen. (1998)."Sometimes I Can Be Anything": Power, Gender And Identity In A Primary Classroom., Zoe Donoahue
Book Review: Gallas, Karen. (1998)."Sometimes I Can Be Anything": Power, Gender And Identity In A Primary Classroom., Zoe Donoahue
Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research
Karen Gallas' third book, Sometimes I Can Be Anything: Power, Gender and Identity in a Primary Classroom, is a fascinating account of how children use power and gender to find their place in the classroom community. Gallas examines children's social interactions, their "real" work in the classroom, focussing on gender in the context of the issues of power and social control. Gallas hopes "to provide the reader with an in-depth look at how the children [she] taught worked to understand the social terrain of the classroom and how [she] as their teacher made sense of their work" (p.3). Gallas' …
Electronic Journals And Magazines On The Internet, Denise Johnson
Electronic Journals And Magazines On The Internet, Denise Johnson
Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research
Educators have always valued scholarly journals as a means of remaining current on research and informing instruction. In the last few years, the Internet has seen an increase in popularity and has brought about a new medium in scholarly publication. Educators are now able to access many of their favorite journals and magazines online!
Building Communities Of Inquirers In Schools, Myriam Shechter
Building Communities Of Inquirers In Schools, Myriam Shechter
Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research
Belonging to a community of inquirers makes you keenly aware of the benefits of such membership, as well as of the problems inherent to any larger group of people working together. Our own group of inquirers, DICEP (Developing Inquiring Communities in Education Project), associated with OISE/UT, includes university-based staff, teachers, and graduate students. We have created a large network of communication lines through which ideas, comments and suggestions flow freely between all participants: e-mail, meetings, interviews and, timepermitting, social get-togethers.