Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction; PART I NARRATIVES OF CLASSROOM LIFE; Chapter 2 Sunny Kaminski's First-Grade Classroom: A Typical Readers' Workshop Time; Chapter 3 Aileen Corvo's Fifth-Grade Classroom: A Typical Language Arts Period; Chapter 4 Sue Anderson's Fifth-Grade Classroom: A Sample Language Arts Period; PART II TEACHERS AND STUDENTS CONSTRUCTING POWER RELATIONS; Chapter 5 Teachers' Organization of Time and Space: One Aspect of Classroom Power Relations
Summary
This book for preservice and inservice teachers, and for teacher educators, will help them consider how students and teachers together construct their lives in classrooms. The author employs a constructivist view of power relations