Language Arts, Vol. 77, No. 1, September 1999

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Issue Theme: Doing Teacher Research

• Unearthing the Unspeakable: When Teacher Research and Political Agendas Collide

  Kathryn Herr

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  Abstract: Herr recounts the complications that arose when her teacher research began to focus on issues of institutional racism within the school where she worked.

  Keywords: Elementary, Research

• Noteprints

  Martha LaPointe

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  Abstract: LaPoint uses the analogy of “footprints in the snow” as a way of thinking about the importance of note taking in teacher research.

  Keywords: Elementary, Research

• Sketching a Self-Portrait of Skills Instruction: Classroom Research and Accountability

  Patricia H. Hinchey, Sally Adonizio, Nan DeMarco, and Kyra Fetchina

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  Abstract: Patricia H. Hinchey, Sally Adonizio, Nan DeMarco, and Kyra Fetchina The authors discuss their research collaboration as a means of documenting teaching and learning in “wholistic” classrooms.

  Keywords: Elementary, Literacy, Research

• Working in Her Own Context: A Case Study of One Teacher Researcher

  Kelly Chandler

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  Abstract: Chandler’s case study of one teacher researcher offers insight into the development of teacher researchers and the relationship between teacher researchers and university-based researchers.

  Keywords: Elementary, Research

• Becoming Teacher Researchers One Moment at a Time

  Brenda Power and Ruth Hubbard

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  Abstract: Power and Hubbard draw on the voices of teachers to offer a glimpse into the process of becoming teacher researchers.

  Keywords: Elementary, Research

• Looking into Complexity: Revisiting and Revising during Classroom Research

  Robert Ackland

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  Abstract: Examines the range of meanings evoked by a particular photograph as a means of challenging readers to consider the complexity of teacher research.

  Keywords: Elementary, Middle, Secondary, Research

• Teachers as Researchers: Making Sense of Teaching and Learning

  Rebecca Waters

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  Abstract: Waters shares her systematic observations and reflections on students' learning in her first-grade classroom as a means of opening a conversation about what counts as teacher research.

  Keywords: Elementary, Research

• What Counts as Teacher Research? An Essay

  Taffy Raphael

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  Abstract: Describes the "Book Club Plus Inquiry Group," a group of classroom teachers and university teacher educators in Michigan involved in practitioner research. Offers perspectives from the group on the question of what counts as teacher research. Concludes with a model of their conception.

  Keywords: Elementary, Research

• The Power of the Conference Is the Power of Suggestion

  Monette Coleman Mclver and Shelby Anne Wolf

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  Abstract: Examines writing conferences (between teacher and student, and between two students) in one fourth-grade classroom to see how the students engaged in sophisticated talk about writing, as they consistently assumed the roles of critical but curious readers capable of telling their peers when they were confused about a piece of writing or how they might make it more engaging.

  Keywords: Elementary, Research, Writing

• Exploring Critical Literacy: You Can Hear a Pin Drop

  Jerome C. Harste, Christine Leland, Anne Ociepha, Mitzi Lewison and Vivian Vasquez

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  Abstract: This article focuses on texts that have the power to engage students in “critical” conversations about issues of power and social justice.

  Keywords: Elementary, Literacy, Literature, Reading

• Editors’ Pages

  Sharon Murphy and Curt Dudley-Marling

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  Keywords: Elementary

• What Counts as Teacher Research?: A Poem in Response to a Question

  Karen Gallas

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  Keywords: Elementary

• ROUNDTABLE ON BOOKS

  Catherine Dorsey-Gaines with others

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  Keywords: Elementary

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