Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 208
Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-8476-9566-9 • Paperback • October 2001 • $42.00 • (£32.00)
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.
Chapter 1 Introduction: Starting Where the Learner Is: Listening to Students
Chapter 2 Our World
Chapter 3 Speaking Out Loud: 'Every Woman for Herself'
Chapter 4 What's Your Bias? Cuts on Diversity in a Suburban Public School
Chapter 5 Cutting Class: Perspectives of Urban High School Students
Chapter 6 An education for what? Reflections of Two High School Seniors on School
Chapter 7 Caught in the Storm of Reform: Five Student Perspectiveson the Implementation of the Interactive Mathematics Program
Chapter 8 Reflections: Writing and Talking about Race in Middle School
Chapter 9 Writing the Wrong: Making Schools Better for Girls
Chapter 10 Negotiating Worlds and Words: Writing About Students' Experiences of School
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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If education reform is to succeed, it must attend to the perspectives of those most directly affected by schooling but least often consulted about its efficacy—the students. This book features eloquently written perspectives by students about their experiences and desires for school.
— Hispanic Outlook
The volume offers a variety of useful models for co-authorship with students.
— Anthropology & Education Quarterly
In Our Own Words offers a lively and vivid account of students' experiences within school. The students' voices are fresh; their stories are engaging. It is should be of interest to a wide group of people concerned about education.
— Annette Lareau, Stanley I.Sheerr Professor, University of Pennsylvania