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Regarding children's words : teacher research on language and literacy / Brookline Teacher Researcher Seminar ; edited by Cynthia Ballenger ; foreword by Sarah Michaels.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Practitioner inquiry series
- The practitioner inquiry series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Language arts (Elementary).
- Action research in education.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 176 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Teachers College Press, [2004]
- Summary:
- Written by members of one of the best-known and longest-standing teacher study groups, this compelling collection of essays explores the intersection of thought, language, and culture as revealed in classroom discourse.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Developing a Community of Inquiry: The Values and Practices of the Brookline Teacher Researcher Seminar / Ann Phillips, Karen Gallas 1
- 1. Turns in a Conversation: An Exemplar of a Project in the BTRS / Ann Phillips 12
- 2. I Need People: Storytelling in a Second-Grade Classroom / Steve Griffin 22
- 3. Reading Storybooks with Young Children: The Case of The Three Robbers / Cynthia Ballenger 31
- 4. Students Talking and Writing Their Way into "Functional" Worlds / Cindy Beseler 43
- 5. In Search of an Honest Response / Jim Swaim 71
- 6. What's Real About Imagination? / Roxanne Pappenheimer 85
- 7. Mainstreaming: Entering Another Classroom's Culture / Susan Black-Donellan 106
- 8. "Look, Karen, I'm Running Like Jello": Imagination as a Question, a Topic, a Tool for Literacy Research and Learning / Karen Gallas 119
- Afterword
- Imagining the Classroom / Cathy O'Connor 149.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-163) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0807744026
- 0807744018
- OCLC:
- 52860184
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