Students Teaching/Teachers Learning
Role
Co-editors: Amanda Branscombe, Dixie Goswami, Jeffrey Schwartz
Contributing author: Betsy Bowen
Files
Document Type
Article
Description/Summary
Betsy Bowen is a contributing author, "Student teachers as researchers: Response", pp. 293-295.
Book description: This book focuses on shared inquiry. The research projects detailed in these chapters show how classroom dynamics change and more active learning takes place for both teacher and student when collaboration is involved. The projects here range from elementary through graduate school in both rural and urban, public and private settings.
Section One, "Students Teaching," raises questions about what happens when students and teachers share authority in and out of the classroom, empowering each other with the kind of authentic learning that can't be measured on standardized tests. As students become more responsible for how as well as what they learn, a bond of negotiation and trust is formed with the teacher. Expertise is no longer the sole domain of the teacher, but is shared by all as student voices are not only encouraged but respected. The projects include an account of the emergent curriculum in an elementary school in Vermont, students as teachers in a foreign language class in Greece, students as co-researchers on a telecommunications project in Pittsburgh, community research in Kentucky, student-sustained discussion, cross-age tutoring, and a follow-up study ten years later of a former student co-researcher.
Section Two, "Teachers Learning," focuses on teachers who have been changed by listening to their students. As in the first section, the roles of student and teacher are not easily defined. When teachers learn in these chapters, contradictions and problems are examined, not ignored. This is teacher research extended beyond the lonely office of the solitary instructor. The projects include a university school collaboration in urban Michigan, portfolio assessment, learning through talk in teacher preparation, and cross- visitation among teachers in the Philadelphia public schools.
ISBN
9780867092998
Publication Date
1992
Publication Information
Bowen. Betsy (1992). "Student teachers as researchers: Response." In Amanda Branscombe, Dixie Goswami, & Jeff Schwartz (Eds.) Students Teaching/Teachers Learning. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. (293-295).
Recommended Citation
Branscombe, Amanda; Goswami, Dixie; Schwartz, Jeffrey; and Bowen, Betsy, "Students Teaching/Teachers Learning" (1992). English Faculty Book Gallery. 12.
https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/english-books/12