International Handbook of Student Experience in Elementary and Secondary School Book

Acknowledgements     ix
Review Board     xi
About the Contributors     xiii
Researching Student Experiences in Elementary and Secondary School: An Evolving Field of Study   Dennis Thiessen     1
How Students Participate in and Make Sense of Life in Classrooms and Schools
Introduction to Section One     79
Naming Student Experiences and Experiencing Student Naming   Max van Manen   Jerry McClelland   Jane Plihal     85
Teaching as Research: Puzzling over Words with Fourth Graders   Cynthia Ballenger     99
School Literacy and the Development of a Child Culture: Written Remnants of the "Gusto of Life"   Anne Hass Dyson     115
Dissolving Learning Boundaries: The Doing, Re-doing, and Undoing of School   Donna E. Alvermann   A. Jonathan Eakle     143
"Some Things Are Fair, Some Things Are Not Fair, and Some Things Are Not, Not Fair": Young Children's Experiences of Unfairness' in School   Helen Demetriou   Bev Hopper     167
The Role of Personal Standards in Second Graders' Moral and Academic Engagement   Theresa A. Thorkildsen     193
Mentors for Students in Elementary School: The Promise and Possibilities   Julia Ellis   Jose L. da Costa   Carol Leroy   Carol AnneJanzen     233
"I've Decided To Change and It's Just Really Hard To, Like, Show the Teachers That"   Bill Nicholl     263
Students' Perspectives on Good Teaching: Implications for Adult Reform Behavior   Bruce Wilson   Dick Corbett     283
Who Students Are and How They Develop in Classrooms and Schools
Introduction to Section Two     315
"Boys Will Be Boys"...But In What Ways? Social Class and the Development of Young Boys' Schooling Identities   Paul Connolly     321
Schooling, Normalisation, and Gendered Bodies: Adolescent Boys' and Girls' Experiences of Gender and Schooling   Wayne Martino   Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli     347
Differences in Transition: Diverse Students Navigating the First Year of High School   Beth Rubin     375
Building Theories of Their Lives: Youth Engaged in Drama Research   Kathleen Gallagher   Philip Lortie     405
How Students Learn about Right and Wrong in the First Year of a Pakistani Private School   Nilofar Vazir     439
Schooling in the Context of Difference: The Challenge of Post-Colonial Education in Ghana   George J. Sefa Dei   Bathseba M. Opini     463
Ali: Becoming a Student-A Life History   Robert V. Bullough, Jr.     493
Portraits of Self and Identity Constructions: Three Chinese Girls' Trilingual Textual Powers   Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen   Mary H. Maguire     517
Finding Their Way: Immigrant and Refugee Students in a Toronto High School   Grace Feuerverger   Elisabeth Richards     555
How Students Are Actively Involved in Shaping Their Own Learning Opportunities and in the Improvement of What Happens in Classrooms and Schools
Introduction to Section Three     579
Student Voice, Student Engagement, and School Reform   Jean Rudduck     587
Stressed-Out Students-SOS: Youth Perspectives on Changing School Climates   Mollie Galloway   Denise Pope   Jerusha Osberg     611
Toward the Pedagogically Engaged School: Listening to Student Voice as a Positive Response to Disengagement and 'Dropping Out'?   John Smyth     635
"It's Not About Systems, It's About Relationships": Building a Listening Culture in a Primary School   Sara Bragg     659
Using Students' Voices to Inform and Evaluate Secondary School Reform   Susan Yonezawa   Makeba Jones     681
Building Student Voice for School Improvement   Sharon Pekrul   Ben Levin     711
Student Voice in School Reform: From Listening to Leadership   Dana Mitra     727
Clarifying the Purpose of Engaging Students as Researchers   Joe L. Kincheloe     745
Making It Real: Engaging Students in Active Citizenship Projects   Pat Thomson     775
Youth Research/Participatory Methods for Reform   Michelle Fine   Maria Elena Torre   April Burns   Yasser A. Payne     805
Translating Researchers: Re-imagining the Work of Investigating Students' Experiences in School   Alison Cook-Sather     829
Name Index     873
Subject Index     888