English Education, Vol. 30, No. 2, May 1998

Table of Contents

• Advocating for Change: A New Education for New Teachers

  Cathy Fleischer

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  Abstract: Discusses the role of teachers in relation to parents. Suggests English educators have much to do in helping teachers learn how to inform parents about the best practices in English/language arts. Posits that teachers--preservice and practicing--must think about their roles differently to see themselves as advocates, not just for students, but for their teaching practices.

  Keywords: College, School-Community Relation

• Telling Tales (In and Out) of School: Ethnographies of Schooling and the Preparation of English Teachers

  Marcy Taylor

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  Abstract: States that in a methods course for elementary education majors, students are asked to keep a notebook to respond to course readings, collect writing starts, reflect on their schooling histories, and collect data from their 10-week field experience in an elementary classroom. Discusses one notebook; presents a sample ethnographic research assignment.

  Keywords: College

• Processing the "Critical" in Literacy Research: Issues of Authority, Ownership, and Representation

  Amy Goodburn

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  Abstract: Provides one account of a "messy," critical research process, drawn from a dissertation project: a study of students' and teachers' responses within three university writing courses which were focused on "The American Experience" and which fulfilled the institution's diversity requirement. Aims to achieve some degree of methodological metaknowledge about ways the research process failed to be critical.

  Keywords: College, Literacy, Research

• Rationales of Empowerment: An Editorial

  Randi Dickson

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  Keywords: College

• News and Notes

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• Index

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