Journal article
Old questions for new schools: what are the students doing?
Teachers College Record, Vol.106(4), pp.635-650
2004
Abstract
This study was conducted in a lighthouse school with a long and successful history of restructuring. In this article we describe our (surprising) impressions of shadowing Jake, one of the highest achieving students in the school. We present a researcher's account of Jake's classroom experience over the first four periods of a single day and an analysis of what happened in terms of the idea of studenting. We employ an actor-oriented view of studenting, comprising four aspects-pacing, attending, conforming, and selecting. We contrast this with a structure-oriented view of studenting and draw parallels with the notions of students-as-participants and students-as-beneficiaries in school reform. Finally, we discuss the problems and possibilities of engaging and involving students in the process of reform.
Details
- Title
- Old questions for new schools: what are the students doing?
- Authors/Creators
- J. Wallace (Author/Creator)H. Wildy (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Teachers College Record, Vol.106(4), pp.635-650
- Publisher
- Teachers College Record
- Identifiers
- 991005542231607891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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