Students as Researchers : Creating Classrooms That Matter (Paperback)

Part One: Theoretically Grounding Student Research, Chapter 1. Students as Researchers: Critical Visions, Emancipatory Insights, Chapter 2. Reclaiming Wonder: Young Students as Researchers, Chapter 3. Nurturing Critical Dispositions in the Classroom, Chapter 4. Interpretive Inquiry as Student Research, Part Two: Pedagogy and Student Research, Chapter 5. Writing and Passing Notes: Resistance, Identity and Pleasure in the Lives of Teenage Girls, Chapter 6. Mentoring Authorship in the Elementary School Classroom Through the Writing Process, Chapter 7. Negotiating Place: The Importance of Children’s Realities, Chapter 8. Using Dramaturgy in Educational Research, Chapter 9. Romancing the Curriculum with Student Research: Recreating Kent State, Chapter 10. Creating North, Chapter 11. Engaging Students as Researchers: Researching and Teaching Thanksgiving in the Elementary Classroom, Chapter 12. Social Studies Teaching and Learning: A Descriptive Analysis of Concept Mapping, Chapter 13. Getting Beyond the Limits in Social Studies: Reconceptualizing the Methods Class, Chapter 14. Action Experiments: Are Students Learning Physical Science?, Chapter 15. Exploring Critical Distance in Science Education: Students Researching the Implications of Technological Embeddedness, Part Three: Conclusion, Chapter 16. Making Meaning and Analyzing Experience ? Student Researchers as Transformative Agents, List of Contributors, Index