Students as Researchers: Creating Classrooms that Matter (The Falmer Press Teachers' Library Series, 15)

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Theoretically Grounding Student Research......Page 10
Students as Researchers: Critical Visions, Emancipatory Insights......Page 11
Reclaiming Wonder: Young Students as Researchers......Page 29
Nurturing Critical Dispositions in the Classroom......Page 42
Interpretive Inquiry as Student Research......Page 58
Pedagogy and Student Research......Page 72
Writing and Passing Notes: Resistance, Identity and Pleasure in the Lives of Teenage Girls......Page 73
Mentoring Authorship in the Elementary School Classroom Through the Writing Process......Page 86
Negotiating Place: The Importance of Children\'s Realities......Page 103
Using Dramaturgy in Educational Research......Page 122
Romancing the Curriculum with Student Research: Recreating Kent State......Page 145
Creating North......Page 150
Engaging Students as Researchers: Researching and Teaching Thanksgiving in the Elementary Classroom......Page 158
Social Studies Teaching and Learning: A Descriptive Analysis of Concept Mapping......Page 176
Getting Beyond the Limits in Social Studies: Reconceptualizing the Methods Class......Page 197
Action Experiments: Are Students Learning Physical Science?......Page 208
Exploring Critical Distance in Science Education: Students Researching the Implications of Technological Embeddedness......Page 221
Conclusion......Page 236
Making Meaning and Analyzing Experience;Student Researchers as Transformative Agents......Page 237
List of Contributors......Page 256
Index......Page 258