Descriptors: out-of-school setting experience of student teachers; integration of both students and teachers beliefs and values in knowledge construction and learning science in middle school; creation of 3rd space; identity construction of science teachers; case study; qualitative methods.
Statement of the problem/objective: Learning in classrooms is majorly determined by the values of the local (dominant) [...]
Archive for June, 2007
the very very first draft …
Posted in Uncategorized on June 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Talk about a rough draft…
Posted in Uncategorized on June 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I have done so much coding and reading but not enough writing. I will make up for this.
In the meantime, I had begun to sketch out my rough, rough, sample proposal but have not yet synthesized the thoughts in my head to start revising… if any one has any thoughts, suggestion, criticisms, please – I welcome it [...]
professional blogging
Posted in Literature, ways to look at the data on June 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Efimova, L. & Fiedler, S. (2004). Learning webs: Learning in weblog networks. In P. Kommers, P. Issias, & M.B. Nunes (Eds.), Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference Web Based Communities 2004 (pp. 490-494). Lisbon, Portugal: IADIS Press.
The authors make the argument that professional blogging projects offer “an emergent enviornment for the creation of loosely [...]
keeping the end goal in sight
Posted in Uncategorized on June 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Let’s work on drafting an outline of the proposal for next week – just bullets where we have them. That will push us to decide what conference (AERA, NARST, ICLS) and division or SIG we are targeting. It will also get us to get something on paper for future revision and refinement.
Check ‘em [...]
third space in funds of knowledge and discourse
Posted in Literature on June 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Moje, E. B., Ciechanowski, K. M., Kramer, K., Ellis, L., Carrillo, R. & Collazo, T.
(2004). Working toward third space in content area literacy: An examination of everyday funds of knowledge and discourse. Reading Research Quarterly, 39(1), p. 38-70.
This study documents the different funds of knowledge and Discourse that students bear, particularly the out-of-school funds that [...]
Meeting Minutes and Concept Map – 060707
Posted in organizing us, ways to look at the data on June 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
1. Boardwork
2. Highs/Lows
3. Event Mapping
4. Resources
5. Papers
a. Authorship
b. Conceptual Framework
c. RQ’s
Pre-Meeting – April & Michael
Redefining Field Experiences
Research Questions
1. What is the impact of out-of-school field experiences on beginning science teachers’ identity development (including Discourse of science teaching)
a. Agency /feedback (Nasir)
i. What learinng resources are available in ese activity structures? (participant/rec.)
b. Intellectual, Pedagogical, cultural, political. [...]
“social and spatial numeracy practices”
Posted in Literature on June 6, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Ares, N, Evans, D & Schademan, A. (in process). Mathematics and numeracy as social and spatial practice.
In this paper, the authors focus on the resources marginalized students bring with them that help them connect to
“powerful mathematical learning” (p.2).
These mathematical knowledge-rich resources, [...]
professional identity development of teachers
Posted in Literature on June 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Alsup, J. (2006). What does it mean to be a secondary school teacher? Teacher identity discourses : Negotiating personal and professional spaces. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
“In our rush to reform education, we have forgotten a simple truth: reform will never be achieved by renewing appropriations, restructuring schools, rewriting curricula, and revising texts if we [...]
Sfard, A. & Prusak, A. (2005). Telling identities: In search of an analytic tool for investigating learning as a culturall shaped activity. Educational Reseracher (34)4, 14-22.
Posted in Literature on June 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Identities ARE stories – the focus is on human beings in action and on the mechanisms underlying human action. Identity-making as a communicational practice NOT as an extra-discursive entity that “represents” or “describes”. Identity is always changing and stories provide ’snapshots’ into identity during different periods of time. Identities are collections of stories about persons [...]
Wenger, E. (1998). Identity in practice. Communities of practice: Learning, meaning and identity. New York: Cambridge University Press.
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Wenger identifies 5 connections between identity and practice in this chapter:
v Identity as negotiated experience
We define who we are by our engagement in communities of practice.
Daily engagement in activities constitutes “who one is” – a way of being in the world
e.g. Being a scientist requires taking on the label “scientist” as well [...]
