What About Rose ?

by Wilson, Smokey; Hull, Glynda A.

• ISBN13: 9780807747889
• ISBN10: 0807747882
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-04-15
• Publisher: Teachers College Pr

Summary

Every year, thousands of urban minority students enter college academically underprepared to meet the challenges that await them. In this book, Smokey Wilson shares her 30-year-long search for better instructional strategies to help these adult learners (many of them African Americans) develop the basic literacy skills needed to succeed in college. Through detailed portraits of students in an urban community college, Wilson shows us when learning happens, why it happens, and what happens when it fails to appear. The text features "A Guide to Classroom Research for Teachers" that outlines the four stages of research and contains exercises to help jump start teachers who are tentative about doing research.

Author Biography

Smokey Wilson is an instructor at Laney College, an inner-city community college in Oakland, and director of the Tutorial Center for the campus.

Table of Contents

Getting started	p. 9
Rose : reversing school failure	p. 11
Mark : repeating school failure	p. 23
Finding a focus	p. 35
Kelly : schooling as irrelevant	p. 37
Anthony : transforming talk into writing	p. 49
Collecting artifacts	p. 63
Darleen : literacy beyond skills	p. 65
Gloria and Ruth : student-teacher interactions	p. 80
Analyzing artifacts	p. 95
From talking to writing, from questioning to finding	p. 97
Maybell : moving toward an academic identity	p. 114
Writing it up	p. 129
Reflections : lessons from classroom research	p. 131
Guide to classroom research for teachers	p. 149
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