Who Owns Learning?

by Searle, Dennis

• ISBN13: 9780435088279
• ISBN10: 0435088270
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-11-21
• Publisher: Heinemann

Summary

The concept of student ownership has provoked considerable debate in current language arts theory and practice. Clearly ownership cannot mean that teachers withdraw their support for students, but how do teachers strike a balance without threatening students' personal investment? And how do individual and cultural differences figure into this equation?To answer these and other questions about ownership, Curt Dudley-Marling and Dennis Searle have asked outstanding teachers and scholars to share their own thoughts and experiences. The result is a remarkable collection of essays on a range of views. Some of the contributors reflect on practice, illustrating how they support student intentions without abdicating their responsibility to "teach." Others offer a more theoretical perspective, arguing that ownership is a more subtle and complex notion than previously imagined.

Table of Contents

Complicating Ownership, C. Dudley-Marling

Understanding Ownership in Classroom Interaction, D. Searle ; C. Dudley-Marling

Students and Teachers: Sharing Ownership and Responsibility in Reading, L. K. Rhodes

Reading with Friends: A Peer-Tutored Reading

Program, O. Bartnicki

Self-Reflection: Supporting Students in Taking Ownership of Evaluation, C. K. Ames ; H. Sumner Gahagan

Integrating Social Studies and Whole Language in a Middle School: Finding a Core in Chore, M. Burke-Hengen

Lessons from Little Bear, S. Stires

Ownership for the Special Needs Child: Individual and

Educational Dilemmas, C. Five

The Power of Influence: Effecting Change by Developing Ownership, M. Stevenson

Dialectics of Ownership: Language as Property, P. Shannon

Writing a Difference in the World: Beyond Ownership and Authorship, C. DuCharme, M. Poplin, ; S.

Thomas

Liberating Student Intention and Association: Toward

What Ends?, T. J. Lensmire

Scaffolding: Who's Building Whose Building?, D. Searle

Teaching and Learning Together in Teacher Education: "Making Easter," D. Dillon et al.