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In Our Own Words
. Ed(S): Shultz, Jeffrey; Cook-Sather, Alison
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paperback. If educational reform is to succeed, it must attend to the perspectives of students - those most directly affected by schooling but least often consulted about its efficacy. This is the premise of this book which features student perspectives on school and foregrounds student voices. Editor(s): Shultz, Jeffrey; Cook-Sather, Alison. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: JFSP1; JFSP2; JNK; JNLB; JNLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 148 x 11. Weight in Grams: 275.
If educational reform is to succeed, it must attend to the perspectives of students—those most directly affected by schooling but least often consulted about its efficacy. This is the premise of the first book both to feature student perspectives on school and to foreground student voices; middle and high school students are the primary authors of the eight chapters collected in this volume aptly titled In Our Own Words. Reflecting differences of gender, racial, and ethnic background, and school context, the student authors write passionately and eloquently about their experiences of and desires for school. Through their explorations of topics ... Read more
If educational reform is to succeed, it must attend to the perspectives of students—those most directly affected by schooling but least often consulted about its efficacy. This is the premise of the first book both to feature student perspectives on school and to foreground student voices; middle and high school students are the primary authors of the eight chapters collected in this volume aptly titled In Our Own Words. Reflecting differences of gender, racial, and ethnic background, and school context, the student authors write passionately and eloquently about their experiences of and desires for school. Through their explorations of topics ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780847695669
SKU
V9780847695669
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About . Ed(S): Shultz, Jeffrey; Cook-Sather, Alison
Jeffrey Shultz is professor of education and coordinator of Multidisciplinary Programs at Arcadia University. He co-edited Journeys Through Ethnography: Realistice Accounts of Fieldwork (with Annette Lareau). Alison Cook-Sather is assistant professor and director of the Bryn Mawr/Haverford Education Program. She co-designed with Ondrea Reisinger a programmatic approach to including high school students' perspectives in undergraduate, secondary teacher preparation.
Reviews for In Our Own Words
The authors urge educators to concentrate on the school's role in supporting student learning rather than on the "best practices," to concentrate on the relationship between students and teachers, and to connect change to grades, not to large scale asssessment. They also offer several other suggestions, but one that stands out is to make students participants in reform.
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