Listening

by Schultz, Katherine

• ISBN13: 9780807743775
• ISBN10: 0807743771
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Teachers College Pr

Summary

How can new and experienced teachers rethink the ways of teaching and learn to embrace and learn from the diversity they encounter among their students? Rather than preparing teachers to follow prescriptions or blueprints, Katherine Schultz suggests that we show them how to attend to and respond to the students they teach. In this book, she offers a conceptual framework for "deep listening," illustrating how successful teachers listen for the particularities of individual students, listen for the rhythm and balance of the whole class, listen for the broader contexts of students' lives, and listen for silence and acts of silence. Listening in this manner brings together knowledge of individual students, an understanding of a student's place within the classroom, and mastery of subject matter and pedagogy. This volume features compelling case studies that reveal the classroom lives of teachers who are exemplary listeners.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Frederick Erickson	ix
Acknowledgments	xiii
1. Locating Listening at the Center of Teaching	1	(18)
Who Should Read This Book?	2	(3)
Foundations of This Research	5	(1)
Taking a Listening Stance	6	(8)
Transforming the Teachers Role	14	(2)
Plan of the Book	16	(3)
2. Listening to Know Particular Students	19	(20)
Research Context	22	(1)
Roderick: Listening to a Student Through Drawing	23	(6)
Kenya: Listening to a Student Through Writing	29	(4)
Listening to Particularities in Context	33	(6)
3. Listening to Classrooms: Rhythm and Balance	39	(37)
Learning to Listen for Rhythm and Balance	42	(4)
Research Context	46	(5)
Listening for Rhythm: A (Nearly) Silent Discussion	51	(7)
Listening for Balance: Recreating Harmony	58	(15)
Participation in a Democratic Community	73	(3)
4. Listening to the Social, Cultural, and Community Contexts of Students' Lives	76	(33)
Attending to the Larger Context	77	(4)
Research Context	81	(2)
The First Dilemma: Censorship and School Topics	83	(8)
The Second Dilemma: Making the Private Public	91	(7)
Bringing Outside Writing Into the School Curriculum	98	(4)
After Graduation	102	(1)
Out-of-School Learning and Literacies	103	(6)
5. Listening for Silence and Acts of Silencing	109	(33)
At Summit School	110	(1)
Research Context	111	(2)
Portraits of Silence	113	(8)
The Shutting Down of Conversations by Individuals	121	(10)
Silencing Through the Enactment of a Color-Blind Discourse	131	(5)
Silencing Through the Enactment of School-Wide Practices and Policies	136	(3)
Noticing and Addressing Silence	139	(3)
6. Listening to Learn to Teach	142	(31)
Going Beyond the Dichotomy of Traditional and Progressive Pedagogy	144	(1)
Placing the Current Educational Climate in Perspective	144	(2)
Research Context	146	(1)
Framing Listening for Student Teachers	147	(15)
Demonstrating Listening to Teach in the Midst of Interaction	162	(6)
Listening With the Ear, the Mind, and the Heart	168	(5)
Notes	173	(2)
References	175	(12)
Index	187	(10)
About the Author	197