Students Teaching, Teachers Learning

by Branscombe, N. Amanda; Goswami, Dixie; Schwartz, Jeffrey

• ISBN13: 9780867092998
• ISBN10: 0867092998
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-07-06
• Publisher: Heinemann

Summary

This book focuses on shared inquiry. The research projects detailed in these chapters show how classroom dynamics change and more active learning takes place for both teacher and student when collaboration is involved. The projects here range from elementary through graduate school in both rural and urban, public and private settings.Section One, "Students Teaching," raises questions about what happens when students and teachers share authority in and out of the classroom, empowering each other with the kind of authentic learning that can't be measured on standardized tests. As students become more responsible for how as well as what they learn, a bond of negotiation and trust is formed with the teacher. Expertise is no longer the sole domain of the teacher, but is shared by all as student voices are not only encouraged but respected. The projects include an account of the emergent curriculum in an elementary school in Vermont, students as teachers in a foreign language class in Greece, students as co-researchers on a telecommunications project in Pittsburgh, community research in Kentucky, student-sustained discussion, cross-age tutoring, and a follow-up study ten years later of a former student co-researcher.Section Two, "Teachers Learning," focuses on teachers who have been changed by listening to their students. As in the first section, the roles of student and teacher are not easily defined. When teachers learn in these chapters, contradictions and problems are examined, not ignored. This is teacher research extended beyond the lonely office of the solitary instructor. The projects include a university school collaboration in urban Michigan, portfolio assessment, learning through talk in teacher preparation, and cross- visitation among teachers in the Philadelphia public schools.Following each chapter are responses-from such influential figures as Mary K. Healy, Nancie Atwell, James Moffett and Shirley Brice Heath-that tell stories, raise questions, push the argument further, and carry on a conversation with the author that extends the dialogue to the reader as well.

Table of Contents

Students Teaching<BR>

Student and Teacher Co-Researchers: Ten Years Later, N. A. Branscombe and C. Thomas, Response, E. White<BR>

The Round Table: Emergent Curriculum in a Primary Class, E. Schwartz. Response, A. Martin<BR>

Savoir ou Connaitre: Alternative Ways of Knowing in the Foreign Language Class, W. Strachan & E. Zoukis. Response, M.K. Healy<BR>

Coming Full Circle: As Teachers Become Researchers So Goes the Curriculum, P. Johnston. Response, N. Atwell<BR>

Student-Sustained Discussion: When Students Talk and the Teacher Listens, S. Allen. Response, C. Cazden<BR>

The Drudgery and the Discovery: Students as Research Partners, J. Schwartz. Response, C. Myers<BR>

On the Move in Pittsburg: When Students and Teacher Share Research, J. Schwartz, Response. D.E. Keyes<BR>

Giving Their Worlds Back to Them: Cultural Journalism in Eastern Kentucky, C. Stumbo. Response One, J. Moffett, Response Two,<BR>

Scarbrough<BR>

Cross-Age Tutoring in South Carolina: Part One, Before the Millennium (Student Becomes Teacher),<BR>

Coleman, Part Two, Coming of Age, J.E. Stuckey. Response, S.B. Heath<BR>

Teachers Learning<BR>

Walking That Walk, Talking That Talk (Learning to Collaborate): Part One, Doing the Do at a Tete-a-Tete (A Portrait of Struggles over Academic Texts), J. Diamondstone, Part Two, Vision of a Field Negro, N. Merriman, Response ( A Dialogue), Diamondstone and Merriman<BR>

Eating on the Street: Cultural Conflict in Detroit, D. Schaafsma. Response One, H. Lockett, Response Two, K.&R.J. Murphy,Jr. Response, B.S. Engel<BR>

Negotiating the Curriculum: Children, Teaching Intern, and University Professor Together, J. B. Taylor & G.G. McIntyre. Response, D. Wilson<BR>

Student Teachers and Their Teacher: Talking Our Way into New Understandings, M. Cochran-Smith, E. Garfield & R. Greenberger. Response, B.A.Bowen<BR>

Meeting Strangers in Familiar Places: Teacher Collaboration by Cross-Visitation, S.L. Lytle & R. Fecho. Response, G.M. Pradl. Afterword, D. Goswami. Notes on Contributors.