Description
About the Author
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.
Reviews
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. * pol *
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
Book Information
ISBN 9780847695669
Author Jeffrey Shultz
Format Paperback
Page Count 208
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Weight(grams) 272g
Dimensions(mm) 228mm * 148mm * 12mm